The Roman Empire and Slavery in Genoa

"It's just hard to put yourself truly in the mind set of an actual other time with truly different social moras," he says. "In genoa in the 14 hundreds, this was going on, has been going on for a very long time." He adds that if columbus were just another italian who existed within a slave owning society and perpetuated it, he would not get an episode on his own. 'No one can remember a time in which italians did not base a sigificant portion of their economy on slavery'