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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
So a good part of the H code spoke about how important it was for people to be able to gain their freedom. And there were mechanisms to do so.
If slavery was moral then why wouldn’t people want to stay in it?
see this is what happens when you repeat the nonsense some other idiot told you instead of doing first hand research to confirm it
the code of hammurabi is primarily concerned with making ham seem pretty awesome, it has more time dedicated to how great he is and how anyone defacing this will be cursed than any actual laws
it deals heavily with marduk, perhaps you'd care to share your opinion on him
but most germane to this discussion, is that are the forefront of his laws is that people who harbor fugitive slaves will be punished - it also deals extensively with laying out rules over under what circumstances someone could marry a slave
it also ends with slavery dealing with how warranties on them work (no, that's not a troll sentence, it
s real), how purchasing slaves from abroad will work, and lastly, that any master is allowed to cut off the ear of any slave who gets lippy
nowhere whatsoever, does it say nor even imply what you are attributing to it
slavery was huge in the ancient world
the word comes from "slavs" as the vikings would capture them and then sell them so the word slav and slave became synonomous - every time you're talking about "slavery" you're just using another word for Pole or Russian