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The '''Southern slave trade''' also called the Cathay slave routes refers to the capture and enslavement of people mainly from the regions of [[Crona]], [[Peratra]] and [[Audonia]] and their transportation across the vastness of the [[Ocean of Cathay]] to [[Sarpedon]]. The trade was regulated by the [[Daxia|Qian dynasty]] and the main participants and executors of it were the [[South Seas Development Company|South Seas Trading Company]] and other large [[Daxia]]n slave cartels. The institution of slavery had existed in [[Daxia]] and its adjacent territories for centuries; the [[United Cities]] had been a state entirely based around the slave trade. But it was not until the territorial campaigns of overseas expansion of the [[Daxia|Qian dynasty]] that slavery got official sanction. Concurrently with this territorial expansion were the first contacts with 'Western' explorers from [[Sarpedon]] and the establishment of [[The Southern Route|the Southern route]] as a viable sea trade corridor to [[Sarpedon]]. The [[Caphiria|Imperium of Caphiria]] had a prodigious need for slaves that far outstripped the reserves of people susceptible to being enslaved in its imperial periphery. The growing economic relation between both powers based on the aforementioned sea route would feed the slave trade for centuries. The profits from the slave trade would grow to such an enormity that the [[Daxia|Qian]] would start wars of aggression in northern [[Crona]] merely to round up more slaves. | The '''Southern slave trade''' also called the Cathay slave routes refers to the capture and enslavement of people mainly from the regions of [[Crona]], [[Peratra]] and [[Audonia]] and their transportation across the vastness of the [[Ocean of Cathay]] to [[Sarpedon]]. The trade was regulated by the [[Daxia|Qian dynasty]] and the main participants and executors of it were the [[South Seas Development Company|South Seas Trading Company]] and other large [[Daxia]]n slave cartels. The institution of slavery had existed in [[Daxia]] and its adjacent territories for centuries; the [[United Cities]] had been a state entirely based around the slave trade. But it was not until the territorial campaigns of overseas expansion of the [[Daxia|Qian dynasty]] that slavery got official sanction. Concurrently with this territorial expansion were the first contacts with 'Western' explorers from [[Sarpedon]] and the establishment of [[The Southern Route|the Southern route]] as a viable sea trade corridor to [[Sarpedon]]. The [[Caphiria|Imperium of Caphiria]] had a prodigious need for slaves that far outstripped the reserves of people susceptible to being enslaved in its imperial periphery. The growing economic relation between both powers based on the aforementioned sea route would feed the slave trade for centuries. The profits from the slave trade would grow to such an enormity that the [[Daxia|Qian]] would start wars of aggression in northern [[Crona]] merely to round up more slaves. | ||
Not even the outbreak of the [[Daxian Polynesian Wars]] would interrupt the flow of slaves to [[Sarpedon]], powerful economic interests on both sides lobbied for immunity for ships carrying slaves from being boarded or hindered. The flow of slaves began to slow down in the late 18th century as sentiment in the [[Caphiria|Imperium]] began to sour on slaves of foreign origin; various new policies were enacted that made it easier and cheaper to possess Caphirian-born and educated slaves, even the middle classes had access to [[Volonia]]n slaves and Slavic servants from the south. As the flow became a trickle, it eventually made less economic sense to export slaves over great distances; internal trading of slaves on the [[Audonia]]n mainland continued to happen but the margins of profit were far smaller. Growing international distaste for the institution of slavery had the Qian considering moving away from the practice but this not happen; slave labor was still in use during the [[Second Great War]] and until the end of the dynasty; the new republican government under [[ | Not even the outbreak of the [[Daxian Polynesian Wars]] would interrupt the flow of slaves to [[Sarpedon]], powerful economic interests on both sides lobbied for immunity for ships carrying slaves from being boarded or hindered. The flow of slaves began to slow down in the late 18th century as sentiment in the [[Caphiria|Imperium]] began to sour on slaves of foreign origin; various new policies were enacted that made it easier and cheaper to possess Caphirian-born and educated slaves, even the middle classes had access to [[Volonia]]n slaves and Slavic servants from the south. As the flow became a trickle, it eventually made less economic sense to export slaves over great distances; internal trading of slaves on the [[Audonia]]n mainland continued to happen but the margins of profit were far smaller. Growing international distaste for the institution of slavery coupled with the financial collapse of the [[South Seas Development Company|South Seas Trading Company]] had the Qian bureaucracy considering moving away from the practice but did this not happen; slave labor was still in use during the [[Second Great War]] and continued to exist until the end of the dynasty; the new republican government under [[Dai Hanjian]] finally banned the practice in 1949. The troubled legacy of the southern slave trade and [[Daxia]]'s role in it continues to cast a dark pall in relations between [[Daxia]] and many countries in [[Crona]] and elsewhere. Daxian governments have repeatedly refused to issue any apologies or any type of compensation; in their view the matter is only a subject for historians to discuss. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||