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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6279802" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>There are examples of slave trade in the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones TV show), that are more akin to Greek/Roman slaving than US history slavery - I'd say a lot more people are being 'educated' on older style of slavery because of GoT, including those Americans (you believe are uneducated about slave history throughout the ages). Of course, I'm American too, but happen to love history, and am not uneducated regarding much older slave trade concerns.</p><p></p><p>While Roman/Greek slaves had some rights, they were to a large extent treated just as badly if not worse than the way slaves were treated in the American south. Though there were educated slaves of Rome/Greece that not only had more rights, but were treated fairly well. Still the vast majority of slaves were not treated well, in any era. On the other hand, while Celts consisted a large part of the Roman slave population, Celts themselves took and kept war slaves in their own lands - so slavery wasn't an unheard of concept to the Celts even before taken as slaves.</p><p></p><p>Despite the Bible stating that the Egyptians kept Jews as slaves, from all my historical research that is simply not true. In fact the Hyksos, a semetic tribe from the Near East, ruled Egypt with their own pharoahs for a century, until their defeat by the older Egyptians at the end of that period, and they left ahorse with arms and supplies - these were the only signifcant population of Jews in ancient Egypt as far as the historical record reveals.</p><p></p><p>While it cannot be overstated that the treatment of slaves in the American south was inhuman, Americans didn't take slaves themselves (at least not in the first centuries of slave use) this was the act of the Dutch East India Company, who should be getting some of the blame as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6279802, member: 50895"] There are examples of slave trade in the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones TV show), that are more akin to Greek/Roman slaving than US history slavery - I'd say a lot more people are being 'educated' on older style of slavery because of GoT, including those Americans (you believe are uneducated about slave history throughout the ages). Of course, I'm American too, but happen to love history, and am not uneducated regarding much older slave trade concerns. While Roman/Greek slaves had some rights, they were to a large extent treated just as badly if not worse than the way slaves were treated in the American south. Though there were educated slaves of Rome/Greece that not only had more rights, but were treated fairly well. Still the vast majority of slaves were not treated well, in any era. On the other hand, while Celts consisted a large part of the Roman slave population, Celts themselves took and kept war slaves in their own lands - so slavery wasn't an unheard of concept to the Celts even before taken as slaves. Despite the Bible stating that the Egyptians kept Jews as slaves, from all my historical research that is simply not true. In fact the Hyksos, a semetic tribe from the Near East, ruled Egypt with their own pharoahs for a century, until their defeat by the older Egyptians at the end of that period, and they left ahorse with arms and supplies - these were the only signifcant population of Jews in ancient Egypt as far as the historical record reveals. While it cannot be overstated that the treatment of slaves in the American south was inhuman, Americans didn't take slaves themselves (at least not in the first centuries of slave use) this was the act of the Dutch East India Company, who should be getting some of the blame as well. [/QUOTE]
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