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True, but if your point is that most slavery regimes throughout history were less awful for the slaves, it's also worth remembering that most accounts of those
by eucyclos 8mo ago
True, but if your point is that most slavery regimes throughout history were less awful for the slaves, it's also worth remembering that most accounts of those regimes weren't written by the victors of a war that saw the other sides slavery practices as justification for said war.
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> if your point is that most slavery regimes throughout history were less awful for the slaves Not at all. The fact that we have practically zero first-hand accounts from the slaves of antiquity speaks volumes to their treatment. My point is on scale (and with that, the institution's effect on the societies that hosted it).