Re:As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery S...
by triceratops on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:11AM
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> considered subjugated people equal before the law (if they converted)
The Mongols and the ancient Persians didn't even make anyone convert.
> banned slavery
If you don't count all the colonies...
> imposed slavery ban on other nations
It is a very admirable thing to do, but who else could do it? They had the most powerful militaries in that era.
Re:As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery S...
by golergka on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:51PM
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> If you don't count all the colonies...
Colonies are exactly what I'm talking about.
> It is a very admirable thing to do, but who else could do it? They had the most powerful militaries in that era.
Nobody else even wanted to.
Re:As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery S...
by triceratops on Saturday February 10, 2024 @10:43AM
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> Colonies are exactly what I'm talking about.
Tell me more about how slavery was outlawed in Haiti - especially during the French Revolution with its "liberté, égalité, fraternité". Tell me about Belgian Congo. Tell me about the close relative of slavery, indentured servitude, in the British Empire.
People consisted other nations and ethnicities subhuman as long as they existed. Europe was, AFAIK, the first place on Earth that (1) considered subjugated people equal before the law (if they converted), (2) banned slavery and (3) imposed slavery ban on other nations.