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All slavery is repugnant, and I don't believe any group's justification for it makes it any more or less repugnant. America's slavery is no exception, but, unlike the Ottoman Empire, in America there was, since that nation's inception, a movement to abolish slavery. This, in my mind, redeems America a bit more than the Ottomans, who practiced slavery till 1909.Slavery was never institutionalized in the Middle Ages in Europe, though. That's not to say that the Medieval European was more enlightened than anyone else. In a sense, slavery was preferable to the alternative which Europeans generally offered their defeated enemies: death.
All slavery is repugnant, and I don't believe any group's justification for it makes it any more or less repugnant. America's slavery is no exception, but, unlike the Ottoman Empire, in America there was, since that nation's inception, a movement to abolish slavery. This, in my mind, redeems America a bit more than the Ottomans, who practiced slavery till 1909.
Slavery was never institutionalized in the Middle Ages in Europe, though. That's not to say that the Medieval European was more enlightened than anyone else. In a sense, slavery was preferable to the alternative which Europeans generally offered their defeated enemies: death.
