Although Christians, both Western and Eastern, were by law prohibited from being sold into slavery, the native Christians were often indistinguishable from the Muslim population and the Italian merchants were sometimes accused of selling them along with Muslim slaves.
尽管基督徒，无论是西方的还是东方的，按照法律都被禁止贩卖为奴，本地基督徒也常常被与穆斯林人口区分开，而意大利商人有时却被指控把他们和穆斯林奴隶一起贩卖。