Comment by 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.
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.
If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception.
Citation needed.