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https://lewrockwell.com/2017/07/walter-e-williams/slavery-always-everywhere/

It was common among ancient peoples such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Greeks, Persians, Armenians and many others. Large numbers of Christians were enslaved during the Ottoman wars in Europe. White slaves were common in Europe from the Dark Ages to the Middle Ages. It was only after A.D. 1600 that Europeans joined with Arabs and Africans and started the Atlantic slave trade.
Major players in the slave trade, notibly sexual slavery, who honed it to a fine art are our Islam friends.