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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 18:42:45 JST Charlie Stross

   • Angus McIntyre
   • Graydon
   • Nazani

   @AlexxKay @Nazani @graydon @angusm IIRC the lot of a Roman slave in 50AD was better than that of an American one in the South in 1850 (unless they'd been condemned to the mines). It wasn't hereditary, they could be manumitted ...

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     Graydon (graydon@canada.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 22:15:30 JST Graydon

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     • Angus McIntyre
     • Nazani

     @cstross @AlexxKay @Nazani @angusm There wasn't a religious position that someone who looked like them could only be a slave…

     There was a big tangle of social customs to economically integrate freedmen, come to that, which advantaged the former master and was normal and common.

     Rome was an authoritarian horror; it wasn't as bad as a cult that wants to force God to end the world having control of nuclear weapons, and it didn't contain something as bad as the dominionist position on slavery.