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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Yep, I'm aware of that. But slavery was universal in the ancient world, even in the pre-Columbian times. There's no getting around that fact. Can you make a movie about ancient Rome without the slaves? Perhaps only Disney could. And I'm pretty sure many, if not the most, of those Roman slaves were white.
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I'd have to agree the Romans were equal opportunity slavers. Whether that was good or bad? That's a whole other question.
As for Disney? They wouldn't make the movie without slaves, they'd just have a totally unrealistic image of slavery and likely have 99% of the slaves being black since their audience would be more comfortable with that image.