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It'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/S
by jdminhbg 7y ago
It'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.