The Importance of Honor in Slavery

All societies based on slavery tend to be marked by this agonizing double consciousness. This might help explain why, throughout most of history, when slaves did rebel against their masters, they rarely rebelled against slavery itself. Even slave owners seemed to feel that the whole arrangement was somehow fundamentally perverse or unnatural. For most of human history, most people saw slavery much as we see war,. but one would have to be naive indeed, to imagine it could simply be eliminated.