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Meanwhile, European empires began profiting off coffee-growing, establishing enslaved or exploited workforces in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Vikings enslaved and sold people into human trafficking networks, or sent them to labor in Scandinavia and its colonies, as was the case for many Irish captives in Iceland.
It’s true that from their introduction around the 3rd century BCE, Roman gladiators were often enslaved or convicted criminals, but this changed by the 1st century CE.
In the summer of 1862, Lincoln met with a group of Black leaders and tried to convince them to support colonization, which colonization meant if you freed enslaved people, then they would go somewhere else.