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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Also abolitionism can only really come from industrial slavery. Industrial as in quantity, not just manufacturing. I consider a large slave plantation to be "industrial" slavery.

    A good example is that there is no Greek analog of Sparticus. Roman slaves were used for large scale industrial projects at the command of the wealthiest elite. Greek slaves were usually the property of small farmers and businesmen.

    The practical upshot of this is that if youre a slave in ancient Greece all you have to do for freedom is kill your master and his familly in his sleep and then run to the closest enemy city state. Freeing yourself in ancient Rome required either being a good boy or large scale collective action.

    Please tell me about thralldom. I love the history of slavery. Was it industrial, as in, did the existence of thralls threaten the livlihood of peasants who owned no slaves? That was a major problem in the Roman Republic - small farmers being bought out by hyper aristocrats who built mega plantations worked by slaves.