Hi. I am currently working my way through the Saxon novels and I’m on the third book The Lords of the North. One thing that I keep noticing reading these books is the amount of slavery. I’m no expert on Anglo-Saxon history but I wanted to ask you as you have obviously done lots of research before writing, was their really slavery on this massive scale? It seems anyone anywhere could just be grabbed randomly and sold into slavery at a slave market. As though the slavers were just as much eligible to become a slave as the slaves they’re selling! I hope to hear back from you and I really appreciate learning more about these times from your work.

Aaron Jones