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>>9
Actually, there are a lot of sources proving that Slavs were sold as slaves in large quantities, especially into Muslim countries.
https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2014/04/29_a_5998709.shtml
>The first established [in the Crimea] this heinous trade, were the Genoese, then the Venetian

>>10
Professor Korpela stresses that the prices of slaves were very unstable and depended on various factors - nationality (slaves-Tatars were considered very loyal, so the merchants asked large sums for them), appearance (slaves on sale were classified according to the color of their skin). During the wars you could buy people almost for nothing.

>>9
In the period from 1463 to 1779, through the hands of Crimean slavers passed just over 3 million people of Russia, Ukraine, Poland and the North Caucasus. At the same time, most of these slaves were intended for sale in the markets of Istanbul and other cities of the Ottoman Empire