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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.