Industrial-scale slavery is a post-agricultural phenomenon and represents a very small percentage of overall human development. Even such slavery, modern weste

Industrial-scale slavery is a post-agricultural phenomenon and represents a very small percentage of overall human development. Even such slavery, modern western/catholic chattel-style slavery aside, wasn't entirely transactional in that way. Many Ottoman slaves had better lives than aristocrats, for instance, and had real agency and influence. Western European/American/Catholic imperialist slavery was somewhat unique in how dehumanizing it was.