I know Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands were, but a quote from Shylock in The Merchant of Venice suggests that the Italians (or at least Venetians) were involved!. Any other countries!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Portugal Spain France Britain Netherlands DenmarkWww@QuestionHome@Com Slavery has existed as long as written history and certainly before that!. The concept of people selling their labour voluntarily for cash wages is very new!. Read Russian books of 100 years ago and you will see that serfs were routinely bought and sold along with the villages they lived in!. Slavery in one form or another still exists today even in Europe; think forced marriage or human smuggling!. So the answer to your question is that all countries of the world have been directly involved in some kind of slave trade whether this be British children sold in Rome 1,000 years ago or the forced labour camps of the Nazis 60 years ago!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Genoa!. Www@QuestionHome@Com |