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A nuance here. Why is this important? Slavery was very common back then and the New Laws were revolutionary.

The Ottomans were famous for their slave trade and did capture tons of Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire

Not only that, Aztecs and other indigenous peoples from the americas had Slavery as an institution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_slavery

Indigenous slavery ended with the New Laws