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Slavery didn't ended in Rome or Europe because of Christianization. Some 5%-25% of inhabitants surveyed during the Domesday Book census of 1086 were slaves in t
by wavefunction 3y ago
Slavery didn't ended in Rome or Europe because of Christianization. Some 5%-25% of inhabitants surveyed during the Domesday Book census of 1086 were slaves in the thoroughly Christianized British Isles. It took a Pope to mostly end Christian slavery of other Christians but of course the enslavement of non-Christians expanded to fill that vacuum for slaves that Christian Europe didn't seem to be able to shake.
Christianity even provided a moral and ethical framework for these religious slavers to justify their enslavement of Africans and Asians and pretty much anyone they could get away with. It's not the only religion with a history that doesn't match its rhetoric but I suppose I'm not responding to a post making claims about those.
- adastra22 3y agoWow, you’ve got a bone to pick. Look, the early Christian emperors passed laws making it easier to free slaves, and harder to maintain or punish slaves, citing biblical commandments. That’s a fact and you can look it up. That’s all I was talking about.