A trunk full of coins, countless
too many to use them in some way
We dispose of them properly
by putting them away for later
in a safe place, buried
under the ash in the middle of our town
We have enough, with the cattle
the pans and the women
who we capture across the border
The men, we trade
for jewelry and silver
that way we get rid of them
without having to ****
or to fear a rebellion
After all, life is hard enough already
Slave-trade
• In Gotland, Sweden and Finland, a total of around 90,000 Arabic coins have been found, which the Vikings have received for the slaves they captured from a country with a "Slavic" language
• Even before Christ, there were many slaves in China
• Under Emperor Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) there lived 4 million civilians in Italy and 2 million slaves
• In the 19th century, the Arabs removed 20 million people from Africa as slaves
Collection "On living on [2]"
