# Chronicle-based accounts record ransom and slavery of crusader captives as Ayyubid war finance

Date: 1898

## The fact

Standard chronicle-based accounts record that after Hattin and along the 1187–92 campaigns, captives were ransomed or enslaved as a fiscal-military practice of [Saladin](/people/saladin)’s camp. The dated public carrier is that modern narration. It is a war-economy path, not a unique slave-census invented here.

## Context

Ransom can spare a life and extract a household. Jerusalem’s terms sit on another row.

Saladin is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Battle of Hattin (https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Hattin; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Do not invent a headcount. Do not write that courtesy deleted slavery.

Do not invent a headcount. Do not write that courtesy deleted slavery.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is income-inequality. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Saladin: https://factrail.ai/people/saladin

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crus/hd_crus.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Hattin

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-prisoner-ransom-economy-as-chronicle