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From: Cheryl Simani <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Druze mtDNA -- I & N1
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <483012.90177.qm@web38802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


There are property and tax records from those days.
Sounds like an interesting research project for someone.

Beth Long <> wrote:
Thank you for the quotes,Cheryl,

If the number of slaves was large enough (I don't suppose there are any estimates out there?), and if the majority of slaves had a documented flow (from A to B), it might be possible to form some hypotheses about specific cases. The slavery discussed in the book was actual fairly recent (1100-1350 A.D.).

It would also be important to know if the slaves were predominantly male or female and if there was a process whereby they could/did achieve freedom at some point and become incorporated into the host cult.

Beth

Cheryl Simani wrote:
Ellen & Beth,

Here is the source nearest at hand.

Friedrich Heer, The Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350. Translated from the German by Janet Sondheimer. London: Weidenfeld, 1962.


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