• 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.it
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      13 days ago

      At least he was also captured and sold as a slave. Moreover, Dio Chrysostom chose him as his anti-slavery champion in Diogenes or On Servants.

      Diogenes argues that it is better not to have slaves at all, observing that:

      … nature has made each man a body that is sufficient for looking after himself. — Dio, Oration 10.10

      • disgrunty@lemmy.world
        9·
        13 days ago

        Also slavery was typically nowhere near as a different sort of brutal in that era. Still brutal and terrible, but not “working people to death and then shipping in more people to work to death” brutal.

        Edit: changed my wording because slavery has always been fucking horrible, e.g. eunuchs

        • kandoh@reddthat.com
          4·
          13 days ago

          Yeah, you got Sundays off and could keep property. Still not a good practice and I don’t agree that society wouldn’t have been able to function without it (maybe mining)