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The main reason was economic - as a way of getting cheap labour. In Europe there has generally been a taboo on reducing members of one's own group to slavery. From time to time (up to about 1550) there were condemnations of the practice of selling prisoners of war into slavery, but it's not clear how widespread this practice was. At various times gypsies were kept as slaves in Europe - in fact till the 1850s in Wallachia and Moldavia (in what is now Romania and Moldova). One of the biggest slaveowners was the Romanian Orthodox Church ... I'm sorry this is a very short answer. This is not the complete answer.

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