Why are some medieval kings still widely remembered today, when so many others have been forgotten?
Glimpsed in the Archive and Known no More: One Indian Slave’s Tale
Slavery is an old and tenacious institution in human society. It is not unknown at present. Nor was it confined in the past to the plantations in the Americas that fed world trade after Europe’s overseas expansion in the 1500s. The practice was widespread in India and accepted and regulated by every regime extant in the region.