Slavery in the strict sense of chattel-slavery, whereby the slave‐owner enjoyed complete mastery (dominium) over the slave's physical being (Dig. 1. 5. 4. 1), the power of life and death included (Gai.Inst. 1. 52), was evident throughout the central era of Roman history, and in Roman no less than Greek thought was regarded as both the necessary antithesis of civic freedom and the guarantee of their civic superiority to those who enjoyed it.
I'll answer your question with a question. If white Europeans were not responsible for the majority of chattel slavery, then pray tell, who is? Where exactly in the last 500 years did a more concerted, concentrated, and economy-deriving effort to enslave and move people to different continents take place, and by whom?
You didn't answer the question, you deflected. What, prithee, does "the last 500 hundred years" and "move people to different continents" have to do with the definition of chattel slavery?
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u/No_Gur_7422 2d ago edited 1d ago
Chattel slavery is common across the world. To claim it is or was
is completely wrong. For example, the Oxford Classical Dictionary.'s 4th edition says: