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That’s quite naive. “The practices of slavery and human trafficking are still prevalent in modern America with estimated 17,500 foreign nationals and 400,000 A
by RobLach 7y ago
That’s quite naive.
“The practices of slavery and human trafficking are still prevalent in modern America with estimated 17,500 foreign nationals and 400,000 Americans being trafficked into and within the United States”
miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article215154980.html
- jdminhbg 7y agoIt's not naive, it's knowing the extent of slavery in the Roman world: Somewhere in the neighborhood of 30-40%, and fully legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome
- labster 7y agoAnd yet there are 40 million slaves in the world today, about the population of the whole Roman Empire. So it’s not exactly rare, either, at 0.5%, or 1 in 200 people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
- Judgmentality 7y agoThe difference between 0.5% and 30-40% is 2 orders of magnitude.
- alexilliamson 7y ago"Slavery was no more pervasive in Rome than in is today" is a truly bizarre hill to die on.