Did they have black slavery back in the day?
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Yes. There are many black and mixed race people in Russia. Joaquim Crima is an independent candidate in Russia's 2010 state election. As the first black man to run for head of the Srednyaya Akhtuba district, Crima received the nickname, "the Russian Obama British supermodel Naomi Campbell has a long term relationship is her billionaire Russian boyfriend http://blogs.bet.com/entertainment/spotlight/bet-blog/assets/2010/03/naomi2-1.jpg
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Alexander Pushkin was black.--Very renowned Russian poet.
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Yes, there are. There's a small percentage of the Russian population (whose ancestors are) from areas not in the former USSR, including black people. And they did have slavery back in the day - as far as I know, all of Europe did - but it was very different from US-style slavery. It was not limited to any one ethnic group, and the taking of slaves through warfare, as a punishment for a crime where the perpetrator couldn't pay restitution to the victim (and was therefore given as a slave to their victim or their family) or simply as a way to survive since the slave owner would then provide food and shelter to their thralls was very common. Since these people were likely to be your neighbors and your fellow countrymen (except in cases of long-distance warfare, of course) your slaves were almost always the same ethnic group, and therefore skin color, that you were.
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yeah there are black ppl in russia, lol my uncle lives there and is married to a russian women.so yeah there are black ppl over there.
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Yes. My family is African and I have relatives who live in Russia (they were immigrants). I don't know anything about slavery in Eastern Europe though.
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There never was slavery in Russia, but there was serfdom - a conditioned where peasants can be bought and sold along with the land. You couldn't kill them, or sell them individually, or indeed turn someone into a serf if he hasn't been born one, but it was a limitation of freedom. As Russia wasn't a colonial power, it never imported slave labor (black or otherwise). Peter the first was given a black man that was held in captivity by a Turkish sultan. He was baptized in 1705 and made Major General of the Russian army and subsequently a governor of Tallinn.
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