Be happy to, as one of them. Sometimes the Irish do the same crap as the blacks. "Oh, the [English/Whites/insert privileged groups here] started it by enslaving [insert victim group here]."
The Celts were more than happy to take slaves, as were the picts, scots, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Chinese, Indians, Africans, and every other group on earth over the last 100,000 years.
it's a natural human condition, often temporary but not always, throughout history.
Yes. Vikings traded slaves they captured on raids and slavery was also a punishment for serious crimes. The word "Thrall" comes from the old Norse word for "slave". Big part of their culture.
Slavery has had a very long history in human affairs. Bartering in people was a norm (although people tended to not barter their own people -- but there would be no restrictions on people outside the tribal group). And, it hasn't always been of the type we think of today in the southern American states. We could even make the argument that serfdom was a form of slavery -- there was a serf class in many societies that was based on family lineage.
We should all perhaps quit worrying the bone of "who enslaved who" one hundred years ago (everyone was pretty much guilty); all agree that it is an ugly practice that we should eradicate; and be thankful we aren't ok with it as much as we used to be (but perhaps a little too comfortable with it still).
Yes, Everybody took slaves. They took other Vikings as slaves, they took other Europeans as slaves, they took pretty much anybody the conquered as slaves, similar to the native Americans. It was a normal form of human interaction.
The Irish would like to have a word...
Nah man, just servants.
Be happy to, as one of them. Sometimes the Irish do the same crap as the blacks. "Oh, the [English/Whites/insert privileged groups here] started it by enslaving [insert victim group here]."
The Celts were more than happy to take slaves, as were the picts, scots, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Chinese, Indians, Africans, and every other group on earth over the last 100,000 years.
it's a natural human condition, often temporary but not always, throughout history.
Yes. Vikings traded slaves they captured on raids and slavery was also a punishment for serious crimes. The word "Thrall" comes from the old Norse word for "slave". Big part of their culture.
Yes, Vikings had slaves. Status, objective value, useful labor. Take what you can, give nothing back.
They certainly sold them -- often to Muslims.
Slavery has had a very long history in human affairs. Bartering in people was a norm (although people tended to not barter their own people -- but there would be no restrictions on people outside the tribal group). And, it hasn't always been of the type we think of today in the southern American states. We could even make the argument that serfdom was a form of slavery -- there was a serf class in many societies that was based on family lineage.
We should all perhaps quit worrying the bone of "who enslaved who" one hundred years ago (everyone was pretty much guilty); all agree that it is an ugly practice that we should eradicate; and be thankful we aren't ok with it as much as we used to be (but perhaps a little too comfortable with it still).
Yes, Everybody took slaves. They took other Vikings as slaves, they took other Europeans as slaves, they took pretty much anybody the conquered as slaves, similar to the native Americans. It was a normal form of human interaction.