It’s been a very hard year

Re:It’s been a very hard year by johnnyanmac on Monday December 01, 2025 @05:50PM (#46114534)

pre-industrial? Lots of tending to the farm, caring for family, and managing slaves I suppose. Had some free time between that to work with your community for bonding or business dealings or whatnot.

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Re:It’s been a very hard year by fastball on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:08PM (#46115447)

Don't think slave management was the average pre-industrial experience.

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Re:It’s been a very hard year by johnnyanmac on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:03PM (#46116480)

Depends on your region, but let's not pretend it was some rarity pre cotton gin. You didn't need to be as rich as yo think to have slave labor.

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Re:It’s been a very hard year by fastball on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:49PM (#46116811)

Quite the leap to go from "pre-industrial people" to "Antebellum US Southerners", and even then the majority of that (hyperspecific) group did not own slaves.

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Re:It’s been a very hard year by alchemism on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @09:35AM (#46121583)

If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception.

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Re:It’s been a very hard year by fastball on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @10:46AM (#46122399)

Citation needed.

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