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I learned that slavery was pretty much everywhere in the ancient world. Slave markets were common place in most of the big cities. Approaching the Middle Ages, how did slavery change? Was it a gradual change to serfdom? The whole view of a slave-servant to a ‘slave-subject’?

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I learned that slavery was pretty much everywhere in the ancient world. Slave markets were common place in most of the big cities. Approaching the Middle Ages, how did slavery change? Was it a gradual change to serfdom? The whole view of a slave-servant to a ‘slave-subject’?	336