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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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As far as I can tell, most people who are/were involved in slavery were equal opportunity slavers. The vast majority of slaves were white in Rome, mostly because Rome rarely went sub-Sahara. Slaves tended to be either captives or people sold into slavery, but in either case, they were people from either the Mediterranean area or Europe. Blacks were around, but there was a reason that Romans tended to call most black Nubians.
Much later, there was a huge slave trade in the Arab world for slaves from Northern Europe. Most of the early slaves in the Caribbean were either white or Indians because that's what was available.