https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/the-10-largest-slaving-civilisations?hide_intro_popup=true

Five Islamic empires. Ancient Rome. The Third Reich. No colonial European powers in the top ten. Your Sunday thought piece. Nov 23, 2025 The Romans enslaved 160 million people. The Mughals 112 million. The Mali Empire 57 million. Your Sunday deep dive into the data they don’t teach in schools.

We have crunched the numbers across 5,000 years of human civilisation, and ranked the results. What we found will surprise you - and might just change how you think about the past.

If of interest, the research for this video can be found here.

My thanks go to Goat, for making the video, and to Andy at Red Creative for the studio.