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The reason slavery has died out in the last 250 years is less because we discovered it was bad and more due to the industrial age and the proliferation of labor saving devices. Prior to this time almost all work was accomplished through human labor.

Slavery is known to have existed as early as the Shang dynasty (18th-12th century bce) in China. It has been studied thoroughly in ancient Han China (206 bce-25 ce), where perhaps 5 percent of the population was enslaved. Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th century.

RED PILL : You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage... born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. - Matrix 1 Morpheus

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South African accent come throughhh. Great video 🙏🏻

The way African Americans talk about slavery you'd think it was created in America

Of course I've known about slavery all my life, but for some reason the part about handing over the firstborn son if you marry a free person caught me off guard. I didn't know you could use a baby as a transaction like that. Yikes.

You'd better say even BEFORE there was a civilization there was slavery. The difference is that slavery was completely accepted at that time aka "the winner takes all". The ancient Egyptian chronicles tell about Egyptian pharao's who rewarded soldiers with slaves, land and other items. The idea that it is NOT acceptable to enslave other people is a rather modern concept.

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Thank you.

Can u do a video about polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

Thank you for showing us the light.

Glad you mentioned that not all people had slaves cause just off the top of my head I can think of a dozen or more people for whom slavery wasn’t feasible and a few where it was a huge sin that your ancestors would turn their backs on you for owning a person .

Ever since there were the concept of (intramural) punishment for violation of order maintaining rules and that of (extramural) war with explicit intent of violation, there was slavery.

Now we have financial slavery

The bible allowed slavery because the people at the time did not consider it to be immoral.

you fail to point out the prevalence of slavery in africa before europeans and of course the white slaves who were taken from ireland and mainland britain by the moors. a very incomplete study very disappointing

Can you make this video into Spanish? I teach a Dual Language class and this would be great in Spanish

Cool, another Kurtzgesagt

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I think "an eye for an eye" should be written in the constitution

Easier to blame a........NO REPERATIONS?

8:53 well duh its like if u damage someone's car u have to pay for the damage because the car (slave)might not work as well anymore.. they're not doing it because they feel bad for the slave...

So Britney spears, was "Geme more, Geme Geme More" , "I'm a slave for yo"

Already well established in the world brought to the Western hemisphere by the predominant military civilizations of the time

Like it or not we’re all slaves.

Very good material! Just throwing my two cents in now. One could argue that with the slavery of the 16th up to the early 19th century we (that's indeed "us" Europeans and American settlers) "perfected" slavery where the numbers and the output of labor was concerned. One could even say that we made slavery a full blown commercial commodity. And with that came the much darker, inhumane cruel aspect of it. Which also became much stronger. And... with that... came awareness! Because it was also "us" Europeans, American settlers who came to the conclusion that this could not go on! No, I am not claiming that "we" invented the anti-slavery movement. We just learned! And eventually we abolished slavery. But this also begs the question why there is still up to this day human trafficing, which is also slavery. And kid-soldiers who are also slaves. Still up to this day and our modern awareness and laws slavery is still a global problem.

Does India still have slavery? The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were nearly 8 million people living in modern slavery in India. In terms of prevalence of modern slavery in India, there were 6.1 victims for every thousand people.

Interesting but you should've avoided using much more recent and unrelated pictures of american slavery when talking about this, and shown where these early civilizations were located.

Bible was so concerned about what we did while naked yet couldn’t bother to outlaw slavery. A HOLY book??

PragU channel some of you have really got to watch of a video titled "Short History of Slavery". It definitely covers it all. And not one country or another are guiltless.

Imma name my kids Ur-Nammu.

is "slavery"..today..translated to the wars of Ukraine/Russia and Hamas/israel..? does that then tell something about our present counter to the past of slavery?

We are still in slavery

nietsche >>>>>fyodor.........

The word slave has origins with the word "slav" or Slavic. As far as the English language goes "slaves" started in Russia.

Irish own way to go,.

We also must consider that slavery can possibly go back to at least to the last ice age. When the conquistadors arrived in America they found slavery, in fact some shipwrecked survivors became slaves of the native Americans. This suggest one of two possibilities. First, slavery independently developed in America the same time as Europe, Asia, and Africa. Second, slavery already existed when the first Americans arrived during the pleistocene. Interesting and fun to think about.

Yes I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I find that this is factual, but only to a point in human history. Let me explain please. I think the history of slavery goes far further back. It started with a person I'll call Zzz, because I have no idea what this person's name might have been. Zzz because my imagination describes this person as habitually lazy person, desirous of using others time and energy to do their own. Zzz as the human race started to congregate in groups for security sake came upon the realization that the natural forces of nature that were, and mostly still remain uncontrollable by humans, could be used to control the group Zzz was amongst for the purposes of power over, and control of the others. And so Zzz invent gods representing these fearsome elements that only this Zzz person could communicate with in behalf of the group that would cower into their caves whenever a wrathful element or fierce animal descended upon them. Once this was accepted by the group in majority they then enslaved themselves. Hence the beginnings of slavery to another and the institutions that followed was the acceptance of those earliest humans.. Perhaps it was the conquering of fire that changed some minds, but religion and governance were established as a power, and with the greed within them slavery in all forms became subconsciously acceptable. Codes and laws were established, and this video begins. Today we see it here in the USA and elsewhere in the form of dictatorships which are more often than not prescribed under oligarchy control who rules by means of wage slavery, and the fear for individual and familiar survival. Of course the push towards conspicuous consumption plays a big part by putting wages earned back into the pockets of the oligarchy. The contrived continuence of religions power within governments, enforcing the human psychological fear conditioning of power brokers. Religions base element of fear mongering is a relavant power tool used by the power brokers as well. It's all based on the utilization of coercion through innate human fears for security. That little reptilian piece of our brains (flight, fight, freeze), that when we don't apply logic to situation, we submit to causation rather than look to solution and action that enslaves the human race/society. An industrial fascist and Nazi sympathizer once said that it is good that the public has little understanding of the banking system, ie monetary system, because if they were to, there would be revolution by morning. For those readers who don't understand what I'm saying; an oligarchy controlled government is rule through and by wealth consolidation. Man my mind is on a run, and this comment is already lengthy. So I'll end with the wishing if Peace and Tranquility for All Most of that that poses ill upon humanity is created by some human(s), and the acceptance of others. Are we so feeble, or apathetic that we prefer self-accepted slavery to a marginal few rather than exert the the brain to its fullest to be unshackled from the corruption of but a few who's financial quest are ethically out of context to a free society.

The Codes of Nesilim is from the Hittites. Hittites are Indo-europeans, who are culturally much more humane than Semites, like the Assyrians or today the Jews and Arabs.

Marking out the eyes of a painted woman 😂 good thing u didnt give it away

The best slaves are ones that don't know they are slaves.

You should have matched your photos/graphics to the time period narrated. Disturbing.

And what has really changed to the last 4000 years? Slavery still exists, ask anybody who works at a fast food outlet or other minimum wage job.

The first ever slaves were humans to the Sumerian gods BEFORE THE GLOBAL FLOOD. Psalm 82, Jude 1:6, Genesis 6:1-4 After the flood, Nimrod used forced labor to dig the ruins of the flood out of the mud and rebuild, as well as bullworks for Babylon. This Nimrod began slavery in Egypt later conquered by Nubians, conquered by Greeks, conquered by Romans. All had slaves!!!

Slavery is still legal in the US. The thirteenth amendment banned the private ownership of slaves. It made it a Government monopoly. THe Government is allowed to keep slaves and use forced labour.

Do you know that the Chinese history have no records of slavery in their history ? It proves that they are very cultured.

I’d like to have some slaves.

Basic historical slavery, and biblical slavery is much different and more human than chattel slavery. Pre-euro slavery didn't dehumanize the slave. European slavery eliminated humanity. As for reparations expecting the offender to do an accurate account of what is owed is not wise. There is an accurate accounting done by an incorruptible source with the power to collect... are you aligned with that source???

I'm so tired of AI narration. Please can you just don't?