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Slavery has existed for thousands of years. It was present in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Vikings had slaves and slavery was widespread throughout the Muslim world. There was slavery in Africa and Christian Europe. Bristol in about AD 1100 was a major slave market for selling English children to Ireland. The transatlantic slave trade, however, was far more impersonal and efficient than earlier forms of slavery, taking more people further away from home than ever before. It denied the humanity of the African people it enslaved by classifying them and their descendants as property (or 'chattel'). It exclusively identified African people with the status of slaves.
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