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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The Barbary Slave Trade happened between the 16th and 18th Century. Was there an earlier enslavement of Christian by Muslims in the middle ages?
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Thanks. I'll do some reading on that.
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However, it was only applied to Christians. As Christians, you could still enslave Muslim and pagans. Also western centric - slave trade major commercial activity in Islamic world. Sorry do not know about China.
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