catholic slave trade with bosnian bogomil women & children

Slavery existed in Bosnia as in other European countries. The slaves are often mentioned as the goods of trade.

Middle Ages Bosnia was known as the country of heretics and the country in which slaves had been found for sale.

People from Dubrovnik, on the one hand, gave strictly orders about prohibition of the trade with "human meat", but in their notebooks there are many sale contracts about which registered buying and selling slaves from Bosnia. The trade of slaves was fundamentally condemned but there was not a real wish to stop it.

The slave trade is mentioned the first time in Bosnia in the year 1181. The owners of slaves were people with various social background. The slaves were taken by force, often during wars. The most important fact concerning the slaves was their religion, Bogomilism.

Many documented slaves were taken in the region Usora by Hungarians and Serbs. Many of the slaves were women and children.

Smajo Halilovic - Trgovina robljem u Bosni