Quote: (07-25-2017 08:34 AM)Stanfield Wrote:
So are certain people impossible to enslave, like Arabs and Native Americans? Like the Romans and the Germanic tribes?
But to be fair - slavery was prevalent in Europe for a long time until Christianity gained a foothold. And even after it was gone, they initiated serfdom which was pretty close or they even had White slaves in the colonies (including USA - first slaves in the US were white). Also - Germanic tribes were enslaved by Romans.
China also had slavery for a long time. China funnily enough was one the first places where the rulers realized it would be better to stop slavery, since the slave farmers and workers were less productive than free peasants.
I think the only group that is willing to rather die than be enslaved are the American Indians. Muslims won't be enslaved because they are told to be masters. There were Arab slaves before Islam, but it was the religion which changed things for them and it was a big reason why they began capturing whites and blacks on a grand scale for 1400 years.
Needless to say - slavery is a fully idiotic institution that is not only fundamentally flawed, but also holds back the advance of a civilization - since any technologically improving invention lowers the value of labor of a slave, so the 2% slave holding population is instantly against it. If you want to advance in a society, you have to abandon slavery quickly.
For example:
That is a Roman Antikythera mechanism. The Romans back then had astronomy, solid mathematics, central heating, warm water and water pipelines, public baths etc. I would make the prediction that if they abandoned slavery and went towards modern universities, public schools, then Rome would have gone towards industrial revolution in the year 200. But instead they got slave pussy and then got wiped out a few centuries later.
Yeah - keeping your stupid slavery was soo much better.....