Viking Slaves Presentation

              vikings slaves

• Slaves did the hardest, dirtiest jobs.
• People could be born slaves.
• The child of a slave mother and father was a slave too,but the child of a slave mother and a farther free.
• They had no farmland.
• Many slaves were people captured in a viking raid.
• viking traders sold slaves in markets.
• During the winter they took furs and kidnapped men and women to sell as slaves.
• The vikings moored there boats near the other men and women kidnapped on raids.
• A female slave would cost a mark [200 grams of silver.]
• The trader weighs the buyer’s silver on his scale

          and tries to persuade him to pay more.

       By Alyssa, Georgie and Kaige!