
87 – Concubinage and Apartheid in Anglo Saxon England
The British History Podcast
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Germanic Concubineage - The Knife Cuts Both Ways
The penalty for a British man killing a Saxon would be much higher than the reverse, because British men were worth less. This is also true for the crime of rape. Broadly speaking, Germanic cultures were rather obsessed with virility. The truly horrific aspects of this definitely lie with the women who were forced into lives of sexual slavery.
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