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@Amyliazora I'm not here to judge, this is a genuine question. How much do you know about slavery?
Slavery may seem unjustifiable nowadays, but back in a time where families used to all be trained to work for one thing only.
Where do you think they would get the labor force for construction, mining and odd jobs?
Slaves, they could only do it with slaves, why?
Because everyone else had been trained though generations to fulfill a specific role, you had families of farmers, artisans, merchants. Learning new trades was extremely hard since school existed in a primitive form and Nobles where the ones that had access to it in some ways.
Even Nobles had jobs that only they could do, so it was really impossible for them to fulfill these roles.
Also trading worked on products more than on coins. Only Nobles and merchants usually dealt with money, artisans and farmers used their own produce, tools, pottery, and art as money, they only had coins to be used on products that can't be obtained locally, from merchants. So they absolutely HAD to follow the same profession otherwise they'd have literally nothing to trade for food and other necessities.
So there was literally no one who would learn how to build or do the heavy duty job. Hence why slaves were the only form of getting that kind of work force.
Without them society would colapse and since many of them were criminals, or people captured from wars against other coutries, no one respected them. It could get to a point where slaves were safer having an owner, as it would protect them from suffering violence from others around them, specially if they came from rival countries.
Freeing slaves would require involvement in politics and reestructuring of society as a whole, so that a kind of reward would need to be paid so that people could learn the trade of working on mines and building, jobs that no one wanted to learn. It's not just a matter of being pissed at slavery and freeing them by force.
people usually remember about how black people were treated when slavery was common in recent decades. But even then, there were owners, and "owners", ones who would mistreat and commit violence just for the heck of it, and others who would be respectful and merely treat them as workers. This doesn't justify the ressurgence of slavers, more importantly, this has always been how slaves were treated, don't think that only black people were mistreated, during the idiocy that were the modern times. Slaves in general were mistreated on most cases.
What is important to know, is that no matter how you think about them, no one should judge a character that decides not to meddle. Freeing slaves irresponsibly is a lot worse than letting slavery happen. You could be dooming the freed slaves to violence and even death just to stroke your ego or sense of morality. If you can't change the system, don't meddle with it.
If you dislike it enough to want it gone, elaborate on alternatives to the whole system. The main characters in these stories aren't politicians, social scientists, historians, they are just brats with some historical knowledge from school, they don't have the know how and neither the political standing to make any suggestions whatsoever.
Needless to remind you that in a world of kingdoms, peasants are literally nobody compared to nobles and royals, they didn't have the "right" to even make suggestions to people of a higher caste, much less band toghether to make demands. So there's that.
Slavery may seem unjustifiable nowadays, but back in a time where families used to all be trained to work for one thing only.
Where do you think they would get the labor force for construction, mining and odd jobs?
Slaves, they could only do it with slaves, why?
Because everyone else had been trained though generations to fulfill a specific role, you had families of farmers, artisans, merchants. Learning new trades was extremely hard since school existed in a primitive form and Nobles where the ones that had access to it in some ways.
Even Nobles had jobs that only they could do, so it was really impossible for them to fulfill these roles.
Also trading worked on products more than on coins. Only Nobles and merchants usually dealt with money, artisans and farmers used their own produce, tools, pottery, and art as money, they only had coins to be used on products that can't be obtained locally, from merchants. So they absolutely HAD to follow the same profession otherwise they'd have literally nothing to trade for food and other necessities.
So there was literally no one who would learn how to build or do the heavy duty job. Hence why slaves were the only form of getting that kind of work force.
Without them society would colapse and since many of them were criminals, or people captured from wars against other coutries, no one respected them. It could get to a point where slaves were safer having an owner, as it would protect them from suffering violence from others around them, specially if they came from rival countries.
Freeing slaves would require involvement in politics and reestructuring of society as a whole, so that a kind of reward would need to be paid so that people could learn the trade of working on mines and building, jobs that no one wanted to learn. It's not just a matter of being pissed at slavery and freeing them by force.
people usually remember about how black people were treated when slavery was common in recent decades. But even then, there were owners, and "owners", ones who would mistreat and commit violence just for the heck of it, and others who would be respectful and merely treat them as workers. This doesn't justify the ressurgence of slavers, more importantly, this has always been how slaves were treated, don't think that only black people were mistreated, during the idiocy that were the modern times. Slaves in general were mistreated on most cases.
What is important to know, is that no matter how you think about them, no one should judge a character that decides not to meddle. Freeing slaves irresponsibly is a lot worse than letting slavery happen. You could be dooming the freed slaves to violence and even death just to stroke your ego or sense of morality. If you can't change the system, don't meddle with it.
If you dislike it enough to want it gone, elaborate on alternatives to the whole system. The main characters in these stories aren't politicians, social scientists, historians, they are just brats with some historical knowledge from school, they don't have the know how and neither the political standing to make any suggestions whatsoever.
Needless to remind you that in a world of kingdoms, peasants are literally nobody compared to nobles and royals, they didn't have the "right" to even make suggestions to people of a higher caste, much less band toghether to make demands. So there's that.
