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To: grundle

“A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.”

https://news.osu.edu/when-europeans-were-slaves—research-suggests-white-slavery-was-much-more-common-than-previously-believed/


106 posted on 12/17/2018 1:10:12 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

En-slav-ed

Look really closely at the middle syllable.

The term “slave” has been culturally appropriated.

It originally meant to treat someone the way the Turks treated people with names ending in -ski ( or -ska, ladies).


107 posted on 12/17/2018 1:20:58 PM PST by Hieronymus ((It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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