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Don't think slave management was the average pre-industrial experience.

• johnnyanmac 11mo ago
  Depends on your region, but let's not pretend it was some rarity pre cotton gin. You didn't need to be as rich as yo think to have slave labor.
  • fastball 11mo ago
    Quite the leap to go from "pre-industrial people" to "Antebellum US Southerners", and even then the majority of that (hyperspecific) group did not own slaves.
    • alchemism 11mo ago
      If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception.
      • fastball 11mo ago
        Citation needed.