[throwfaraway135]

There were times when there were more slaves in Athens than citizens.

The Arab led slave trade flourished for much longer, by some records it is alive even today.

The words Slav and slave have the same root.

There were times when 30-40% of the Korean population were slaves.

The Mongols killed and enslaved half of the known world.

[youngNed]

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.

My point is this, none of these people ever make a point of how much freedom they had, because after a couple hundred years they stopped, quite like the the brits like to.

It's pretty baffling tbh.

Anyone: criticises the British empire.

Brits: after several hundred years of brutal trans Atlantic slave trade, we stopped. Hurrah!

[jadamson]

> My point is this, none of these people ever make a point of how much freedom they had, because after a couple hundred years they stopped, quite like the the brits like to.

The others he listed didn't stop voluntarily - their empires either collapsed or found themselves at the mercy of another that likely also practiced slavery. As he said, slavery was the default. The UK itself was getting raided by Barbary pirates just 200 years before the Slavery Abolition Act.

Unlike the Romans or the Mongols, the UK made a choice to stop, and they did so, at massive cost, because their values changed. They actual made actual progress, and thus are hated by many calling themselves progressives.

[youngNed]

> They actual made actual progress, and thus are hated by many calling themselves progressives.

Y'know.... i dunno man, i'm not so sure its the 'stopping' that makes them hated by those calling themselves progressives?