Galley slave
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galley-slave-206-3607317
title:
Galley slave
text:
A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar, or a kind of human chattel, sometimes a prisoner of war, assigned to the duty of rowing. In the ancient Mediterranean, galley rowers were mostly free men, and slaves were used as rowers when manpower was in high demand. In the Middle Ages and the early modern period, convicts and prisoners of war often manned galleys, and the Barbary pirates enslaved captives as galley slaves. During the 18th
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
A person enslaved or sentenced to row in a galley
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_slave
date created:
2005-09-17T02:47:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T01:00:33Z
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13
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