No you are wrong like i said the Roman slavery was different. I think the game might feel the need to include slavery to be historically accurate but its explanation/justification for it is verging on liablious and is definately very insulting to those who have a humanist outlook. No there were paid labourers to be found wherever they looked really, if they paid enough. Also the games explanation sounds like some sort of justification stating DEMAND as the key concern. Large scale slavery hadnt been present in europe since roman times. Why is this important, because younger players and those lazy to see the truth can be easily mislead by the games caption that this was normal practice at the time. Where as most older slavery took place during wars this went on for 400 years. There was no integration to the land owning classes. In the carribean slaves were worked so hard they did not live beyond 30. An area almost the the size of western europe was depopoulated. Show me a time in history when this happened. Lets be clear as to the Industrial scale of the Atlantice slave trade, they reackon 4 million at least were transported in an area the size of western europe. Almost half of those transported died from sickness or hunger. The slaves after a generation or two might well be incorporated into the army or marry into slave owning class.Д«ut with Atlantic slave trade we are talking about something different verging on a genocide. The war would end and those peoples would become part of the empire paying taxes and providing troops etc. In roman times an army would conquer a region and take an army captive and maybe a few rebellious tribes. I mean the games description as to slavery being around since antiquity pays no reality to what the Atlantic slave trade was and meant.

I start this post because because Newdeath12 had started an earlier one expressing his revultion to the casual inclusion of slavery as a resource in the game.He like me was uncomfortable at the idea but the thread was closed down.

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