why did the west commit to multiculturalism?

[Subotan]

There has never been any slavery in Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe

Slavery in early medieval Europe was relatively common. It was widespread at the end of antiquity... Slavery declined in the Middle Ages in most parts of Europe as serfdom slowly rose, but it never completely disappeared.

K.O.!

[Centurion1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe



K.O.!

Then let us heap unto that everything from the fall of the Roman Empire and before............. I am pretty sure Europa is still Europe, neh?

Double KO

[Fragony]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe



K.O.!

If you want it to be, 19th century serfdom in Russia was basically the last of what is close to slavery in Europe. Poor working conditions, all times. But not real slavery, where someone is your property by law

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

What year did slavery cease in Europe?

Not including non-lawful events like sex trade which is still happening. Just which century it ceased.

Slavery, as practiced in the colonies, was never practiced in Europe, ever. As soon as you brought a Black slave to England, he legally ceased to be a slave, there was simply no way you could own another human being in English law, and the same was basically true for the rest of Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe



K.O.!

This was never the kind of slavery practiced in the Colonies during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, which was the point I was making to Strike. slavery in medieval Europe was a state usually aquired either through debt or war. In both cases it was a form of indenture which impled a type of weakness on the part of the slave, a French slave and an Enlish slave would be the same, just as a French Freeman and an English Freeman would be.

It is a completely different concept to Black = Slave.