re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Slavery was common practice. Not all slaveowners beat or raped their slaves. Not all slaveowners broke up families by selling off husbands, wives and children.

The serfs of Europe were never chattel. Their legal status was attachments to the land.

Their day-to-day lives were much like American plantation slavery, except that families didn’t get broken up and sold away. If the landowner killed or disabled too many of them, he couldn’t just go to the market and buy more. He couldn’t acquire new territory and move them there.