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Dan carlin recently made an outstanding [deep dive into this topic](https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-...) one might say a bit too deep, but I personally really enjoy them.

Even as its centered around US perspective, it does a very good job at setting the stage of what slavery meant in europe and throughout the world.

It’s fascinating that one of the main reasons that transatlantic slavery turnout out as something that persisted for sooo much longer in US rather than slowly decline naturally like in the rest of world, was a technological invention made to make the life of slaves better. Talk about unintended consequences.

The only big perspective that was missing I think was the Asian slavery in India, where someone who was a slave could become a legitimate ruler and there have been some examples of those.

Where “slave” could actually turn out to be “forced high education to turn children into high value clerks and scribes”.