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by coldtea 2453 days ago
>because by then it was well established that white people shouldn't enslave, or attach to land, other white people.

Well, you'd be surprised. A large part of Europe (Germany, Austria, etc) halted serfdom only a few decades before Russia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom#Dates_of_emancipation_...