Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24256580-20131206011928/@comment-3539474-20140106195854

Zippertrain85 wrote: So I still think it was mostly due to the Archeins and opposing Argonian Tribes that actual Dunmer intervention. Mostly it was House Dres's men that raided northern Black Marsh. "Slave traders from Morrowind were freer than ever to exploit their southern neighbor, and entire tribes of Argonians were dragged in chains to the Dunmer land"

- Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition: Black Marsh

The Archeins might have collaborated with the slavers, but they were plantation owners. Of course they would take other tribes lands and sell the people to the slavers. They made most of their money by selling other Argonians into slavery until the slave revolt, all went bankrupt. "As the Archeins went bankrupt, their slaves returned to his parents' tiny farms. The backwater Argonians found that they could grow enough to feed their families provided they had enough hard workers in their enclave, and the buyers market for slaves sharply declined."

- The Argonian Account, Book IV