I am ready and eager to learn. And i can be mistaken or lack of precision.
When i say that the status of slaves improved in time, i was referring to the status of roman slaves in ancient times, not black African ones in USA.
I have not said that the life of a roman slave was a life of leisure and pleasure. Life of a miner slave or even of a farm slave was harsh. It improved, it took centuries.
But one must remember that in ancient Roma, a paterfamilias had power of life and death on every member of his household, including his children, and not only on his slaves.
[Slavery in ancient Rome - Wikipedia]
When i say that to judge a slave owner, i consider every one of his achievements, i mean that every man ix complex with good and bad sides. The way he treats his slaves is taken in account. That to judge some one, you must consider the whole of him is basic.
And yes, the transatlantic slave trade gives to slavery a new meaning. but don’t minimize the Muslim slave trade and its consequences on Africa and south Europa. .
We agree.
About Slave trade in Mediterranean
Robert C. Davis, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean,
the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
I ma sorry i have no links in English about this book.
Just a number: " "Between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly a million and possibly as many as a million and a quarter white European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the barbarian coast. ".
And another one, the author evaluates the rate of attrition among the male slaves at 20%.