>It took almost five thousand years to stop openly owning other human beings (and people still do it with different names today, but at least we don't condone i

>It took almost five thousand years to stop openly owning other human beings (and people still do it with different names today, but at least we don't condone it anymore). In the US it never stopped. It merely became only the right of corporations and the state via prisons. Maybe it stopped in other countries, but how is that different than saying it stopped at the first civilization that banned slavery?