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  2. Hagar - Wikipedia

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    According to the Bible, Hagar was the Egyptian slave of Sarai, Abram's wife (whose names later became Sarah and Abraham). Sarai had been barren for a long time and sought a way to fulfill God's promise that Abram would be father of many nations, especially since they had grown old, so she offered Hagar to Abram to be his concubine.

  3. File:Family of slaves in Georgia, circa 1850.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Family_of_slaves_in_Georgia,_circa_1850.jpg (800 × 600 pixels, file size: 89 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  4. Slavery in Egypt - Wikipedia

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    It differed from slavery in ancient Egypt, being managed in accordance with Islamic law from the conquest of the Caliphate in the 7th century until the practice stopped in the early 20th century, having been gradually phased out when the slave trade was banned in the late 19th century. During the Islamic history of Egypt, slaves were mainly of ...

  5. Kingdom of Georgia - Wikipedia

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    A fresco of King Bagrat III from Bedia Cathedral Map of the Caucasus region and surrounding areas at 1000 AD, before the death of David III. During the 10th century, David III of Tao invaded the Duchy of Kartli , giving it to his adopted son, who would later be known as Bagrat III of Georgia , with his biological father, Gurgen of Iberia , as ...

  6. List of Georgia and Florida slave traders - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865. Note 1: The importation of slaves from overseas was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed locally afterwards, including through the port of Savannah, Georgia (until 1798). [ 1 ]

  7. Sarai (city) - Wikipedia

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    Sarai in the Fra Mauro map. "Old Sarai" (سرای باتو, Sarāy-i Bātū; or سرای برکه, Sarāy-i Barka) was established by the Mongol ruler Batu Khan (1227-1255), as indicated by both occasional references to the "Sarai of Batu" ("Sarai Batu", Sarāy-i Bātū) [4] and an explicit statement of the Franciscan William of Rubruck, who visited Batu in 1253 or 1254, on his way to the ...

  8. Category:Egyptian slaves - Wikipedia

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    Slaves from the Fatimid Caliphate (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Egyptian slaves" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.

  9. Slavery in antiquity - Wikipedia

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    Not all slaves went to houses. Some also sold themselves to temples or were assigned to temples by the king. Slave trading was not very popular until later in Ancient Egypt. But while slave trading eventually sprang up all over Egypt, there was little worldwide trade. Rather, the individual dealers seem to have approached their customers ...