236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
The Michael Shermer Show
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Anatomy of Slavery
Slavery has been around for hundreds and thousands of years, e in more or less extreme forms. North atlantic slavery was a particularly extreme version where not only were people taken away from their original environments, transported thousands of miles in terrible conditions. But generally, they weren't kept apart in the way that the african slaves were kept together in the plantations. Generally, there were roots out of slavery, possibilities of buying their freedom, sometimes even marriage. The other form of slavery, which is very common everywere, is debt, bondage. That's also pretty bad. And i think the north atlantic Slavery was ways really just the, sort of, in some ways
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