I was reading a post about sex workers centuries ago and I read that they consisted of poor people and freed slaves, so my question is waht was the thing that made a specific group of people slaves if it wasn’t their economic status? Who were these people across history? Not just after the colonization of Africa but before that as well.
There's certainly more that can be said, but for a truly excellent take on the history of the concept of slavery, you can't beat /u/sowser's response to Suffering slaves and suffering serfs, whats the diff?