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In what would become [[Fiannria]] as well as areas of [[Carna]], [[Anglei]], and [[Hollona and Diorisia]], slavery was used as a method of control. Rebellious frontier populations of [[Gaelic people|Gaels]] would often be deported en masse in a disproportionate response to unrest or small rebellions and replaced with settlers from the [[The Valley (Urcea)|Great Levantine core region]], often Latinics or Latinied Gaels. The use of deportation in this manner, both in actual incidents as well as in the threat of deportation and enslavement, has been characterized by some historians as an early form of deliberate {{wp|genocide}}. These efforts left significant demographic implications in these areas, not only transplanting new groups of people but also leaving them significant depopulated and open to future [[Gothic people|Gothic]] settlement that would come with Gothic raids and invasion in the fourth century. | In what would become [[Fiannria]] as well as areas of [[Carna]], [[Anglei]], and [[Hollona and Diorisia]], slavery was used as a method of control. Rebellious frontier populations of [[Gaelic people|Gaels]] would often be deported en masse in a disproportionate response to unrest or small rebellions and replaced with settlers from the [[The Valley (Urcea)|Great Levantine core region]], often Latinics or Latinied Gaels. The use of deportation in this manner, both in actual incidents as well as in the threat of deportation and enslavement, has been characterized by some historians as an early form of deliberate {{wp|genocide}}. These efforts left significant demographic implications in these areas, not only transplanting new groups of people but also leaving them significant depopulated and open to future [[Gothic people|Gothic]] settlement that would come with Gothic raids and invasion in the fourth century. | ||
Although Great Levantine conquests began to slow and come to a halt in the first century AD and immediate aftermath of the [[Gallian Wars]], foreign slaves continued to be readily available in the first century. Great Levantine armies establishing client kingdoms and other subordinate relationships with [[Gothic people|Goths]] as well as what would become [[Caergwynn]] and [[Faneria]] captured thousands of slaves, sometimes in a single campaign, for sale back home. Additionally, local client kings and other polities would sell groups of captured enemies to the Levantines. The [[Ninerivers Confederation]] and [[Imperium Vandar Orientalis|Vandar Empire]] would conquer and deport Gothic people living in northern Levantia to Great Levantia. While private slave trading was illegal, it was often difficult to enforce. Parties of raiders would often use the [[Vandarch]] as a method of raiding and capturing people from [[Gothica]] for sale in modern [[Fiannria]] as well as [[Hollona and Diorisia]]. | |||
A major slave revolt in [[Tromarine]] in 150 AD lead to a mixed response by Levantine authorities. On the one hand, new laws were introduced against runaway slaves and a period of generally harsher enforcement was inaugurated against unruly and potentially rebellious slaves. On the other hand, new pathways to manumission and a maximum term of enslavement were both introduced in the 150s, although the latter was undermined inasmuch as an individual slave could face multiple consecutive terms of enslavement. Most historians believe more slaves were freed or gained their own freedom between 150 and 200 AD than at any other previous time in Levantine history. It was also made illegal for debtors to be sold into slavery in 178 AD, changing slavery to an almost exclusively foreign or foreign-descendant institution. | A major slave revolt in [[Tromarine]] in 150 AD lead to a mixed response by Levantine authorities. On the one hand, new laws were introduced against runaway slaves and a period of generally harsher enforcement was inaugurated against unruly and potentially rebellious slaves. On the other hand, new pathways to manumission and a maximum term of enslavement were both introduced in the 150s, although the latter was undermined inasmuch as an individual slave could face multiple consecutive terms of enslavement. Most historians believe more slaves were freed or gained their own freedom between 150 and 200 AD than at any other previous time in Levantine history. It was also made illegal for debtors to be sold into slavery in 178 AD, changing slavery to an almost exclusively foreign or foreign-descendant institution. | ||