Romania is marking 160 years since the abolition of slavery. The slaves were Roma for half a millennium, they belonged to nobles, landowners and monasteries, they were legally sold, forced to work hard and punished. The only thing they were entitled to was basic food and clothing. So far, half a millennium of Roma slavery has gone unnoticed in history textbooks in a European country - which is devastating on several levels. from the Gypsies if you do not use a whip ", and the usual nickname for the Roma was" crows "because of its mostly darker skin. The Roma did a lot of work, making jewelry, blacksmiths, working in mines, taking care of households and cultivating fields. Thus developed the names for certain groups - ursari - animal trainers, auras were crafts for gold, cauldrons made of kaldarashi. They possessed and developed rare skills - for example, Roma have long been blacksmiths and hairdressers in Wallachia and Moldova. Because they were slaves, they were forbidden to speak their mother tongue, and for centuries they were exposed to violent processes of Romanization and Hungarianization.

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