There's a story how he gifted a beautiful slave girl to a delegation from some barbaric gold mining kingdom and, cultural shock, they just killed and ate her.
I remember when I started learning world history and it opened my eyes to see how much slavery was the norm for most of the worlds history.
For all the talk of activism today it’s amazing to me that nobody seems to care about modern day slaves. Instead they will harp on slavery that happened in the U.S. for the 1000th time
That's a good point. Mansa Musa wasn't very allergic to slavery.
There's a story how he gifted a beautiful slave girl to a delegation from some barbaric gold mining kingdom and, cultural shock, they just killed and ate her.
Nope. Pretty common for any empire I’d imagine
As far as I understand it, apart from this brief experiment we're all living through, slavery has been the rule, not the exception.
Pretty funny, when you think about it. Us Brits turned William the Conqueror's new-kingdom cash-grab into a moral crusade...
I remember when I started learning world history and it opened my eyes to see how much slavery was the norm for most of the worlds history.
For all the talk of activism today it’s amazing to me that nobody seems to care about modern day slaves. Instead they will harp on slavery that happened in the U.S. for the 1000th time