Was there slavery in Renaissance Italy?

The ways merchants in Italy differentiated along ethnic and religious lines among the slaves they dealt in sheds light more on how the people of Italy made distinctions among themselves than on the origins and religion of their captives. read more

“ At the end of the fifteenth century the wealth of Italy had eventually been transferred from the nobility to the new commercial class. It can also be said, that slavery was rediscovered during the period of Italian Renaissance.” ( Blackburn, 1997). The market in human slave labor in southern Europe began in 12 th century. read more

Domestic Slavery in Renaissance Italy. During the period 1350–1500 there was a flourishing trade of slaves from the dismembered Byzantine Empire and the lands around the Black Sea to the countries in North-Africa and the Ottoman Empire (The centuries of Slavic slaves - Medieval Italy). read more

Domestic Slavery in Renaissance Italy. By Sally McKee. Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 29, No. 3 (2008) Abstract: It is unlikely that additional quantifiable data found in Italian archives will alter significantly the conclusions reached by twentieth-century economic historians about slavery in Italy during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. read more