Re: technical terms overhaul
mick writes:
> Barbary pirates, Ottoman Empire enslaved over 2 million Europeans but
> you don't see their descendants so much because they were
> castrated. It really is not white man bad black man good.
During the same period European serfs were really slaves. During Roman
and earlier times slavery was a commonplace social institution and the
slaves were other Europeans who had been capture in wars. Athenian
democracy was supported by slaves working the Athenian silver mines.
Slavery was a universal part of human society throughout almost all of
recorded history and probably for tens of thousands of years before
then. I doubt that there is a human alive who does not have slave
ancestors.
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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