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>Disentangling them is very difficult and usually smells of a political motive. Whereas claiming they can't be disentangled is obviously disinterested. Slaver
by scythe 10y ago
>Disentangling them is very difficult and usually smells of a political motive.
Whereas claiming they can't be disentangled is obviously disinterested.
Slavery was the rule, not the exception in the world at the time. The African kingdoms mostly practiced it, the Arabs were infamous for it, Mexico ended slavery in the 1830s after American industrialization was well underway, Russia didn't truly end serfdom until around 1900 as I recall, and then you have India's caste system, so only China is left without slavery in some form? But were they? And why didn't all of these countries industrialize?
- mcguire 10y agoPossibly because they didn't have the large amount of valuable raw materials to process, the way England did from its slaveholding colonies?