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buybuydandavis comments on What did governments get right? Gotta list them all! - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 September 2013 12:59PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 18 September 2013 06:49:06PM *  5 points [-]

Did your locale never have slavery, or did it just never have slavery under a particular flag?

My understanding is that slavery was a near universal in the last couple thousand years of human history, and lack of slavery was the exception.