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What ? Leibniz lived in Germany and France, and I think there was no slavery (as in ownership of human beings; sure there were servants and nobility and so on,

What ? Leibniz lived in Germany and France, and I think there was no slavery (as in ownership of human beings; sure there were servants and nobility and so on, but no actual slavery) in there at the time ... Would you elaborate how "it was slavery that bought him the time to do it" ?

sliverstorm 13y ago
For the purposes of brevity I'm grouping slavery, peasants, servants, indentured servants, etc into the same group. They all serve to buy leisure time at the expense of the sweat of other people.