Editing Child marriage (section)

===Persecution, forced migration, and slavery===
Social upheavals such as wars, major military campaigns, [[forced religious conversion]], taking natives as [[prisoners of war]] and converting them into slaves, arrest and [[forced migration]]s of people often made a suitable groom a rare commodity. Bride's families would seek out any available bachelors and marry them to their daughters before events beyond their control moved the boy away. Persecution and displacement of [[Romani people|Roma]] and [[Jews|Jewish]] people in Europe, colonial campaigns to get slaves from various ethnic groups in West Africa across the Atlantic for [[Plantation (settlement or colony)|plantations]], and Islamic campaigns to get Hindu slaves from India across Afghanistan's [[Hindu Kush]] as property and for work were some of the historical events that increased the practice of child marriage before the 19th century.<ref name=goitein78/><ref>Andre Wink (1997), Al-Hind: the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, vol. 2, The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th–13th Centuries (Leiden)</ref><ref>Assaf Likhovski (2006), Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine, {{ISBN|978-0-8078-3017-8}}; University of North Carolina Press, pages 93–103</ref>

Among [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi Jewish]] communities, child marriages became frequent from the 10th to 13th centuries, especially in Muslim Spain.<ref name=Lieberman/> This practice intensified after the Jewish community was expelled from Spain, and resettled in the [[Ottoman Empire]]. Child marriages among the Eastern [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic Jews]] continued through the 18th century in Islamic majority regions.<ref name=Lieberman>Julia Rebollo Lieberman (2011), Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora, pages 8–10; Brandeis University Press; {{ISBN|978-1-58465-957-0}}</ref><ref>Ruth Lamdan, Child Marriages in Jewish Society in Eastern Mediterranean during the 16th Century, Mediterranean Historical Review, 2 (June 1996); Vol 11, pages 37–59</ref><ref>Joseph Hacker, in Moreshet Sheparad: The Sephardi Legacy, Vol 2, (Editor: Haim Beinart), Magnes Press, 1992; pages 109–133</ref>