The Gruesome Reality of Medieval Slavery

Slav and slave are the same word, and this video explains why. It runs from Saint Patrick’s six years as a captive in Ireland to the first African slave auction at Lagos in 1444, by way of the Viking slave trade, the Dublin slave market, Ibn Fadlan’s eyewitness account of a Rus funeral, Anglo-Saxon England’s slave laws, the Domesday Book, the sack of Thessalonica in 904, the Zanj rebellion, the Mamluks, the Black Sea trade at Caffa, and the slave register of Florence. If you have walked the quays at Dublin or Bristol, you stood where some of this happened. If you’d like to support the channel, you can become a Patreon member here:   / eternalmysteries   You can also support the channel by becoming a YouTube member here:    / @theeternalmysteries   Timestamps: 0:00 Slavery in Early Medieval Europe 17:18 Viking Raids and Slave Markets 33:18 Thralls and the Settlement of Iceland 46:05 Slaves Sacrificed for Their Masters 1:03:25 Europe's Slave Routes and the Byzantine Markets 1:27:59 The Zanj Slave Rebellion 1:35:44 England's Slave Trade and the Northern Frontiers 1:56:18 Mongol Captives and Slavery in Italian Households 2:14:28 Slavery on the Spanish Frontier 2:22:47 Portugal and the Atlantic Slave Trade