The Barbary Slave Trade happened between the 16th and 18th Century. Was there an earlier enslavement of Christian by Muslims in the middle ages?
You're almost right, but resistance to the idea of slavery started some centuries before the emergence of modernity. The medieval church was against it, partly because they didn't like christians being sold as slaves to muslim countries.
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It was the single biggest trade in early medieval Europe.
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Also, consumerism than began with rise of textile industry made humans more valuable alive than dead, as workers of one industry were customers of another.
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Modernity didn't happen overnight. It was a long transition which with hindsight we can see beginning in the Middle Ages and earlier, with a lot of lip service.
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All historical narratives are false and yet they are still useful.
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resistance to the idea of slavery *in general*, and not just for the goodies, started in the early Enlightenment, precisely in the geographies Douglas indicated.
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within about a 40-50 year timeframe the British Empire went from profiting from the slave trade more than any other entity in the world to wiping it out almost everywhere in the world. and the people behind the transition were very, very Christian.
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Protecting only those like you (Christians in this case) is an old idea. The idea to disallow slavery for all humans on the territory seems more recent and unusual (at the time).
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