I seem to recall from long ago and far-off early medieval history
lectures that one of Bristol's main exports in the 9th-10th centuries(?)
was English children to be sold as slaves in Ireland. Certainly Domesday
Book referred to a group within late Anglo-Saxon society which the clerks
writing it up translated as "Servi" (I think I have that right) which I
believe is the Latin for "slave". What all this means I refer to the
medievalists.
Daniel Szechi
Auburn University