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You know that lewis black FOSSIL bit ? I just wanna do that with SPARTACUS.
And then i throw him just over their head
(Not to mention that like most slaver cultures before the US got their hands on it the Romans had multiple and indeed expected ways a slave could become a free citizen)
Not to take the side of American chattel slavery but it did too. What was unique about the Atlantic trade model of slavery, and pretending it was only USians engaging in it is its own revisionism btw, was the racial ideology that grew out of the need for monsters to self justify it.
Tribalist justification was nothing new to slavery but the growth of "race science" was unique.