← Back to context Comment by fastball 3 months ago Don't think slave management was the average pre-industrial experience. 4 comments fastball Reply johnnyanmac 3 months ago Depends on your region, but let's not pretend it was some rarity pre cotton gin. You didn't need to be as rich as yo think to have slave labor. fastball 3 months ago Quite the leap to go from "pre-industrial people" to "Antebellum US Southerners", and even then the majority of that (hyperspecific) group did not own slaves. alchemism 3 months ago If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception. 1 reply →
johnnyanmac 3 months ago Depends on your region, but let's not pretend it was some rarity pre cotton gin. You didn't need to be as rich as yo think to have slave labor. fastball 3 months ago Quite the leap to go from "pre-industrial people" to "Antebellum US Southerners", and even then the majority of that (hyperspecific) group did not own slaves. alchemism 3 months ago If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception. 1 reply →
fastball 3 months ago Quite the leap to go from "pre-industrial people" to "Antebellum US Southerners", and even then the majority of that (hyperspecific) group did not own slaves. alchemism 3 months ago If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception. 1 reply →
alchemism 3 months ago If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception. 1 reply →
Depends on your region, but let's not pretend it was some rarity pre cotton gin. You didn't need to be as rich as yo think to have slave labor.
Quite the leap to go from "pre-industrial people" to "Antebellum US Southerners", and even then the majority of that (hyperspecific) group did not own slaves.
If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception.
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