Until the Industrial Revolution, every major society on earth had some form of slavery or forced labor. If you’re going to do some sort of huge project like build the pyramids or the Great Wall of China, or run gigantic plantations, the only way to do that was mass quantities of physical labor…and none of the laborers are going to sign up for that voluntarily.
Until the Industrial Revolution, every major society on earth had some form of slavery or forced labor. If you’re going to do some sort of huge project like build the pyramids or the Great Wall of China, or run gigantic plantations, the only way to do that was mass quantities of physical labor…and none of the laborers are going to sign up for that voluntarily.