All dates are A.D.
All bold face entries address black African slavery.
“Evil is of old date”
-Arab Proverb
649: France, Balthilde, an Anglo-Saxon slave girl, marries King Clovis 2nd and attempts to stop the slave trade, becoming known as Saint Balthilde. The term slave is not used, rather servant was the term for human chattel, based on the Latin servile, from which English also derived such terms as serf, serve, village, and villain.
651: Egypt, Muslim rulers demand 360 slaves a year from Nubia.
702: Visigothic Spain, King Egica lobbies free people to catch his runaway slaves.
850: There are 7,000 black eunuchs in Bagdad, which required the castration of an estimated 70,000 blacks, involving the removing of testicles and penis with a 90% mortality rate.
921: Ibn Fadlan reports on white slave trade in Russia, where the name slave is derived from the ethic term Slavic, indicating that the Arabs had the same taste in slave girls as the Ancient Persians and Greeks, blonde and red-headed girls from Eastern Europe. The Arabic term slave will slowly spread over the period under study, until, in the early 1800s it is the usual term for un-free people in the United States.
960- Bishops of Venice sought divine forgiveness for selling slaves by banning the trade.
1050: Bahrain, princes hold 30,000 black slaves a piece.
1100: Enslavement of Muslims in Portugal, is common.
1102: Archbishop Anselm of London denounced the practice of selling Englishmen as “brute Beasts” and Bishop Wulfstan also preached against selling English slave boys to the Irish.
1200: Child slaves sold from Bristol England to Ireland.
1260: Spanish legal code reaffirms Roman definitions of slavery, [servant, or servile person].
1306: Black slaves sold in France
1318: Thomas Vincentius buys two white slaves, one Russian and one Greek.
1320: Greek slaves are fashionable in Barcelona.
1324: Cairo, Mansa Musa, black Sultan of Mali sells 14,000—yes, 14,000—slave girls to meet his traveling expenses to Mecca.
1352: Christian slave raids in West Africa are conducted by Italians, Spanish and Portuguese warships.
1395: King Juan I of Aragon buys black slaves.
1397: 400 white slave girls are sold in Florence Italy.
1409: Johannes Vilahut sold the Russian slave girl Helen, age twenty seven, in Palma.
1450: Erma, age twenty-five, an Albanian slave girl, is sold in Barcelona, to a fisherman.
1453: The fall of Constantinople cuts off the supply of white slave girls to Italy and Spain, putting slave master libidos at risk! The Don’s go from rock stars to rappers in a single year.
1500s, European fishermen [English, Dutch, French, Basque, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish] frequent the waters of the North American Atlantic Coast from Carolina to Canada, seizing women and children as sex slaves for use on board ship, and for resale in Europe.
1516: Sir Thomas Moore writes Utopia, suggesting that hard working people should be enslaved along with the poor.
1537: Pope Paul III asserts that Indians “are true men,” and should be treated humanely, even if enslaved.
1538: A Greek slave is sold in Italy.
1544: The Supreme Court of Mexico sends a letter to the King of Spain requesting black slaves due to high mortality among Indian slaves, claiming blacks are stronger.
1555: The first Englishman recorded to have taken slaves from Africa was John Lok, a London trader who, in 1555, brought to England five slaves from Guinea.
1560: Alonso de Zorita reports on naked Indian slaves being whipped by a black overseer in Mexico.
1563: English begin raiding the West African Coast for slaves.
1564: John Hawkins partners with Queen Elizabeth and raids the African coast for slaves in four ships, establishing the triangular trade transatlantic slave trade. The slaves were initially sold as domestics and sex slaves in England and to sugar planters in the west Indies.
1568: Davy Ingram and a companion survived the slaughter of Sir John Hawkins’ expedition at San Juan de Ulloa, Mexico, and walked to the North Atlantic Coast, at Cape Briton, Canada, where they were rescued by a French Ship.
1572: The Vagabond Act is passed in England, criminalizing unemployment, homelessness. hunger, and poverty, making sufferers of these conditions eligible for enslavement.
Are there any citations for these? I'd like to read into these instances more if possible and verify for myself.
These are mostly from Hugh Thomas huge book the Slave Trade, with I have reviewed on this site and is credited in the book.