Moral dilemmas in slave-owning societies: evidence from early legal texts
Slavery is not a natural state. It arises when people or classes in a society assume the right to treat others as their property. And yet the status of slaves has rarely been defined by law, even when slavery was an accepted social fact. This publication examines the laws that did deal with slavery,...
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EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt
2021
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