• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    When in human history did conquerers not also take slaves from those they conquered?

    Pre-state societies, ie chiefdoms, tribes, and bands in the anthropological sense, generally do not take slaves as they lack the social mechanisms for consistently restraining the liberty of individuals. Expulsion or genocide are generally the results of insufficiently similar groups that are defeated.