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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

The fact that Aristotle wrote a defense of slavery is evidence that there was an antislavery movement in ancient Greece. We can judge them based on modern values because the antislavery movement likely had the same political currents as modernity