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Are you arguing slavery prevents industrial resolutions? Didn't they coexist in some parts of the world? Or is it the way slaves were used? Can you clarify t
by brownbat 9y ago
Are you arguing slavery prevents industrial resolutions?
Didn't they coexist in some parts of the world?
Or is it the way slaves were used?
Can you clarify to contrast Roman and US experiences?
- QAPereo 9y agoI’m saying that in Rome, slaves/servants were used the way we use machines and conveniences. A lot of their impressive “Tech” amounted to The Turk... brute force and a person working it all. They had hot baths because they had genuinely impressive concrete and because they had humans tending fires to heat them. There was no drive to move past that, there was no cotton gin, no real science to work with either.
- glibgil 9y ago> Are you arguing slavery prevents industrial resolutions? > Didn't they coexist in some parts of the world? The American Civil War is an example of the two coexisting in the same country
- WalterBright 9y agoThe free states industrialized, and the slave states did not.
- QAPereo 9y agoI mean... that ended with the devastation of the slave states.