AS Conquest

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/6/00 9:34:33 PM Mountain Standard Time,
rayhendon at satx.rr.com writes:

<< From my limited study of Saxons, Jutes and Angles, slavery (in the Roman
 sense of definition) was not practiced among these peoples.

-- well, that's extremely odd, since the language has a word which translates
precisely as "slave", and slaves were an export from England in the
pre-conversion period, and as late as the Domesday Book about 10% of the
population are listed as slaves. (With the highest proportion in the western
shires).

In fact, slavery was a universal (but not overwhelmingly important)
institution in all the pre-Christian Germanic societies; slaves were
generally war-captives or their children.