Many books have dealt with the issue of slavery.
The merit of the investigation of the historian Jean-Claude Hocquet is to take up this file entirely and to underline its too often neglected importance around the Mediterranean.
Because the old
Mare Nostrum
, probably marked by the ancient heritage, is one of the shores where slavery was the most widespread, on the eastern side, as we knew, Islam did not stand out from ancient societies except on an exception (it does not recognize debt slavery), but also on the Western side, which remains fairly ignored.
Calling into question the studies of certain historians of the Mediterranean, while following in the line of Braudel, the author makes us discover a very dark face of Mediterranean slavery, which was much more widespread in the Middle Ages than we know. can't imagine it.
It is found not only in the lands of Africa - since the Arabs were important slave traders of that time - but also in…
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