The Black Sea slave trade

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    Muscovite Russia in the mid-17th century did not have the power to compel the Crimean Tatars to stop their repetitious invasions. The Crimean Khanate was an important center of the slave trade until it was formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783. Over the period 1500–1700, the Crimean Tatars transported 10,000 captured slaves per annum from Russia and Poland-Lithuania, which amounted to 2 million in 200 years.
     
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    The vast majority of victims of the Black Sea slave trade were the Muscovites and Poles. "Blonde cargoes: Finnish children in the slave markets of medieval Crimea" makes dubious claims about Finnish enslavement by Tsar Ivan the Great, who forcibly annexed Novgorod to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1478. But located in northwestern Russia, Novgorod is geographically distant from today's Finland and the Novgorod Republic was largely inhabited by the Rus people without any major Finnish presence in the area. After Kemi in northern Finland was raided by the Russians in 1490, a large number of Finns were captured but there is no historical evidence that they were sold to the Tatars.

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    Новгородская область (Russian)

     
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