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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 2225691" data-attributes="member: 19412">I would investigate slaves among the Anglo Saxons, the Irish and the Norse. The distinction between slave and master were less obvious and the culture spent less time demonizing slaves for their colour. One comment, I can't remember the source, was that after the Domesday book there were substantially more freed slaves among the Norse than among the Anglo Saxon.The Norse had a system where the slave was allotted land for raising his own food. He could sell the food of that land and buy his own freedom. Slavery without obvious devision is much easier to overcome. The anglo saxon had no such system and their slaves were freed less often and produced less money. The cultures also had a tradition where honourable people, unable to pay their debts, sold themselves. This is cruel but honourable and presumably implies that when they had earned something like their value they should be freed.Its a lot better than demonizing a visible minority. Raise societal respect for the slaves and you will weaken slavery.Look at Leviticus 25 for a concept of 'Jubilee'And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.Every fifty years the deity frees everybody.  Great safety valve but it defeats arguements like "he's a slave because he's evil".Some might willingly accept slavery if the deal was one they could accept or they were slaves of someone they deified. Most supplicants to powerful evil must supplicate themselves and accept slavery of a sort. Power before the rest in exchange for servitude to the on high.SGood luck.This is a moral minefield, no offense meant to anyone.</blockquote>

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