The Slave Trade Wasn’t Just Trans-Atlantic

     Slavery has existed throughout history and everywhere, not just undertaken by European powers against sub-Saharan Africans. While the European explorers who first sailed down to western Africa mainly tapped into an existing market, others, like the Ottomans were still buying slaves from those of near pitch black skin to the pasty wide Icelanders, as recounted by the enslaved Icelander Ólafur Egilsson.

     When does Iceland get reparations for the Icelanders who were enslaved?

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