Labor aristocrats desperately need to protect and apologize for their "glorious" cathedrals. Without such colonial architecture they cannot rationalize being such insignificant parasites clinging to the sewer of their satanic empire.
Keep soyfacing at how important culture and spirituality are for bringing meaning into your soulless existence, utopian class traitors!
Serf labor would still have been essential to the construction of the cathedrals even if the primary work on site was done by freemen. Someone had to quarry all of that stone, after all.
But that said bringing up serfs in a discussion that started off by assuming chattel slaves is :amogus:
Quarrying was typically done by free paid laborers though. Serfs were really an agriculture thing
That's true. I mean serfs were kind of slave like in some ways, but any discussion of slavery in a site like this where most discussion is centered around the US... I mean, medieval serfs had it pretty rough sometimes I guess but not as rough as a slave in the US