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[โ€“] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't have to have chattel slavery for it to be slavery, the way enslaved people were treated as livestock by Americans was historically uniquely horrific

[โ€“] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

well, anglobrain associates american slavery in their brain with that word (and haiti weren't americans). roman slavery or tribe war-related slavery were different from chattel slavery, but we have same word for them. while something like peasantry in russia was skirting very close to it