You assume? What’s that based on?
Improved in what way, a few favored b@st@r¶ slave children gained freedom after life time of being slave? That’s supposed to balance the millions enslaved for lives lived and died, like so much cattle?
This is why I’m a bit skeptical of people talking about morals -
Interesting it seems philosopher talk about moral plenty - but shy away when it come to defining morals.
Guess slaves did build the White House and many other grand buildings in Washington DC, who wouldn’t have been flattered to be forced to work on those projects - for grub and space on the floor to sleep???
False - comparing Indentured Servitude with the Slaves is disingenuous in the extreme.
Forced labor was not uncommon — **Africans and Europeans had been trading goods and people across the Mediterranean for centuries — but enslavement had not been based on race. **
> The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began as early as the 15th century, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited.
Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold and exploited. …
Hmmm, seems from my reading of history that pre-agriculture, populations were small, conflicts were small and limited, it wasn’t until agriculture and the expansion of populations and birth of city states obsessed with becoming kingdoms, and huge armies, that slave taking became a thing.
Of course, in very ancient history, the odd kidnapped female might be an example of being made slave, only to make out good, if the female learned how to manage her new “husband” and brood.