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human trafficking of Europeans within Europe was still common as surnames came into use, and certain classes of people were viewed as property in some European countries until the 19th C.. Only a few years separates the emancipation of slaves in America and the last Europeans viewed as property in their own countries. Even in the Americas, the first slaves brought into the European colonies were European (POWs, debt slaves etc.) and a common fear during times of conflict was of being kidnapped and sold into slavery in another nations colony.

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