Uncovering the Medieval Slave Trade -- A Conversation with Hannah Barker
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What Happens to Enslaved Women Who Have Children With Their Masters?
In islonic context, women who enslave women who have children with their male free masters get special walid status. Children of any other enslaved women or wives automatically go into the inheritance pool. In iberia in the thirteenth century and italy in the late fourteenth century, there starts to be just an assumption that if the father recognizes that the child is his, then that child can be free. So where is that coming from? I have various theories about this, but i haven't found the kind of evidence i would like to back up exactly how this influence is working. And for me at least, it has to do with black people having an air
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