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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jan 28, 2018 17:39:58 GMT -5
I'm reading a book right now that says Middle Age European Monasteries had slaves. It doesn't specify what culture they were. Is this correct?
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jan 28, 2018 18:50:20 GMT -5
Define slave...Im a slave to my mortgage and my govt.
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Post by Clotilde on Jan 28, 2018 19:04:49 GMT -5
You'd definitely need more information.
When was the book written?
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jan 28, 2018 19:24:57 GMT -5
Define slave...Im a slave to my mortgage and my govt. Throughout the book he has distinguished between indentured servant and slave, so here it just says slaves.
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jan 28, 2018 19:33:12 GMT -5
You'd definitely need more information. When was the book written? The book is an essay, The Real History of Slavery and is a bigger book entitled, Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell. The actual paragraph reads, "This is not to say that being a slave was a matter of indifference. A horror of becoming a slave has been widespread around the world, but this is wholly different from a reluctance to enslave others. Christians, Moslems, and Jews all forbade the enslavement of their own respective fellow religionists-though they did not always honor even this ban--but all considered it permissible to enslave others. Clergy themselves had slaves and both Christian monasteries in Europe and Buddhist monasteries in Asia owned slaves. 62 Even Sir Thomas More's fictional ideal society, Utopia, had slavery." And the footnote 62 is to the book "Introduction" Breaking the Chains by Martin Klein, I believe published 1993.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jan 29, 2018 7:25:30 GMT -5
As I said...without a clear definition of slave its impossible to surmise what is being asserted.
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jan 30, 2018 8:33:31 GMT -5
As I said...without a clear definition of slave its impossible to surmise what is being asserted. All I can say is in the book he is talking about slaves as being owned by other people. If no one has ever heard of this happening in monasteries, I am going to assume it is false.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jan 30, 2018 13:47:05 GMT -5
Now you have to define "owned"....many saints were known to buy slaves to free them from cruelty or cruel circumstances.
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