The First Man to Oppose Slavery

And it was English civilisation by the name of William Wilberforce who brought the practice to an end in all the lands they had control over and gave an example for the world to follow.

Umm. I’m pretty sure there were ancient Egyptians who were opposed to it too.

Conor Hollingsworth?

So how true is it that Achaemenid Persia had no (or almost no) slavery?

In its early days Rome was a sanctuary city offering freedom to run away slaves who made it there it was to boost its population and didn't last long

What about the servile wars.

Spartacus

The American South calls itself the Bible Belt. They claim to follow Jesus. Jesus tells them to love their neighbors and be kind to one another but instead they use the words of the Bible to justify their hate, bigotry and racism. Donald Trump knew all he had to do was spew hate, bigotry and racism and his followers would vote for him. Trump's followers are just disappointed Trump didn't sign an executive order to bring back slavery. The people of the South in America pass on their hate, bigotry and racism from generation to generation. They are hypocrites just like the religious leaders of Jesus' time. Jesus called them hypocrites and snakes and a brood of vipers.

First recorded argument against slavery? False. Cyrus the great outlawed slavery 800 years before this guy

Slavery was necessary to escape hunter-gathering. With basic survival being a full time job, cities could not be built and tools couldnt be made, slavery was a way for work to be done while others could have free time to do other things like learn or create etc… theres a reason it was seen as barbaric and ancient even more than a thousand years ago. We progressed past slavery when the advances gained because of it allowed us too.

Also I believe the quite a few stoics were against slavery as well quite a few of them being slaves including Epictetus.

Bible says slaves and servents had to accept their condition as work well.

Persians-the Achaemenid empire-outlawed slavery!

The first weatern*. The Qin Dynasty, who conquered the Warring States and Unified China in 221 BC, were vocal abolitionists. The Persians also left a lot of antislavery art and politically positioned themselves as liberators which incentivised the lower classes of neighboring powers to choose to support the encroaching Persians during war.

Spartacus be like: am i a joke to you?

Tremendous guest, thanks for having him on

Cyrus the Great, who banned slavery six centuries before Christ: 🤡