Thread 17953379

wait
you're telling me that every single instance of the freeing of slaves in history has resulted not in the slaves becoming grateful to their former captors, but instead rising up against them in anger?

>>17953379 (OP)
After the Spartacus uprising fear of another slave rebellion led to the decision to gradually improve the legal status of slaves. In the middle of the 1st century CE, Emperor Claudius pushed through a law according to which the murder of an old or infirm slave was considered murder, and slaves abandoned by their masters were to become free people.

In the mid-2nd century CE, Emperor Antoninus Pius expanded slave rights, including holding owners accountable for killing a slave, forcing them to sell a slave who had been mistreated, and granting slaves the right to appeal to a neutral third party.

These changes were certainly introduced too late, but to a large extent, Spartacus' uprising contributed to the improvement of the lives of slaves. As it turned out, this was the last slave uprising in the Roman Empire.

>>17953379 (OP)
no?

>>17953397
that's about people as they are still slaves
i'm talking about people who are no longer slaves

>>17953379 (OP)
The largest and most consequential emancipation of the slaves that occurred in the 19th century by Westerners on a worldwide scale did nothing of what you just said so I don't know why you're saying this

>>17953379 (OP)
The slave class in Joseon Korea (the nobi) was freed by a king because the Korean class system was transforming and the existence of the nobi class was harshly critisized by intellectuals and elites.

>>17953379 (OP)
>>17953397
>>17953406
yeah freedmen played a big part in ruining the roman empire. then again, non-free slaves also played a big part in ruining the roman empire.
then again, the aristocrats who chose to restaff all of their country's institutions with slaves instead of their own compatriots probably played the biggest part of all in this.

>>17953414
i suggest you take a good, hard look at the black-on-white murder rates

>>17953434
i suggest you take a good, hard look at the black-on-black murder rates

>>17953434
Schizo post

>>17953379 (OP)
>Slavery

because every single instance of freeing slaves was not because of benevolence but because it became unsustainable and the slavers losing power

>>17953428
That sounds complicated.