>>115628025Slavery in a historical context was generally interchangable with serfdom. These were people who were not given rights and forced to work, however they were taken care of and recognized as being a part of the social ladder, even if they were at the very bottom. In some societies, like Rome, slaves could even buy their way out of slavery. Importantly, in ancient slave relationships, nobody was trying to get more and more slaves to sell. That just wasn't an industry. Nobody was becoming an aristocrat through trading slaves. Wealthy people had slaves, and in the capacity that they basically had no rights and were made to do whatever kind of gruntwork, we never really gravitated away from that, we just kind of call it something else.
The trans-atlantic slave trade was a business built upon the treatment of human beings like a product that you could just mine out of the earth. A lot of its justification was built upon the incorrect assumptions that the Africans were not even people, but rather a kind of animal somehow different from white colonialists. There were whole branches of bogus biology, anatomy, psychology, all attempting to prove that Africans were less than Europeans-- shit, do you even understand what "Caucasian' means? White scientists estimated that the Caucus mountains were the origins of life, and therefore the White Man is the True Predecessor of Humanity-- Caucasian. Here's the thing, though, I'm literally Caucasian and Caucasian people have a much more olive skin color than European whites.
Being a slave in the trans-atlantic slave trade wasn't a rung on the social ladder, you were literally property and your existence was defined by making other people money. It was an industry with expectation for infinite growth.
>>115628179But you _do_ see people fleeing to other countries with socialized healthcare. Stop letting Turning Point USA decide what your worldview is and actually look around.
