Serfs.
A serf is a slave and a slave has no role in the church.
19th century
By way of the slave trade.
What parts of Europe still had slavery when Christopher Columbus started the slave trade to the Americas?
Sir John Hawkings invented the slave trader beetween Africa the Americas and Europe
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade
Roughly around the early 1800s
The Slave Trade started in the 17th century, it happened when 2 ships went from Europe to Africa.
There are no records that indicate who was actually the first slave.
The slave trade
slave owners