• marcos@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Capitalism was the one main force pushing for the end of slavery at the Contemporaneous Age. It’s basically the reason most of the world doesn’t have it anymore.

    (And yeah, I mean modern Capitalism, that appeared after the Industrial Revolution.)

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      Capitalism was the one main force pushing for the end of slavery at the Contemporaneous Age. It’s basically the reason most of the world doesn’t have it anymore.

      nope, ironically it wasn’t the capitalist institutions, but rather religious institutions that called for an end to slavery