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Originally Posted by Shotsie
Every empire throughout the history of civilization has had slaves.
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Actually serfdom was a form of slavery and that was practiced in Britain until the 15th century. The Black Death was the reason it stopped even though the King at the time passed a law enforcing it. Not sure about the rest of Europe or Russia, I suspect it was later.
The Bill of Rights excluded slaves. Maybe even Afro Caribbean people.
Even before Empires, there were slaves. And a previous poster is right, Africans would go in to bush, raid a tribe they didn't like or wanted the land from and drag them back to the coast. For the money. The slavery trade leaves few hands clean.
I'm off to watch our new TV and have a cup of tea. CYA