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There are levels to this slavery is immoral stuff Early Modern Period (~1600 AD) 19th Century History (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The thing I find wild, even with guys like Franklin, is that they ever had slaves at all. It's not like it suddenly became immoral or they had no historical context for it that they would have only experienced the immorality by practicing it.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    ...slavery existed for hundreds of years before europeans came the new world

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Historically, slavery was often viewed in a similar way to poverty - "It would be great if there was a world without it, but the world, as it works, always has rich/free and poor/slave"

    Thus, the thinking was not "Slavery itself is moral or immoral" but "There are ways of treating slaves that are moral and immoral."

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