re: #206 freetoken

There have been people who understood racial ‘equality’ from the dawn of time. It’s also a highly cultural thing. You might enjoy this paper, which is basically criticizing most of the scholarship about race-relations in the Roman empire as being done with the lens of modern racism: scholar.lib.vt.edu

TL;DR The Romans had black slaves, but a massive majority of ‘white’ slaves, and there is nothing really to suggest the Romans thought blacks were naturally ‘meant’ to be subservient. In addition, having a black parent in Rome did not make you ‘black’. Parentage and lineage was important, but they didn’t really view it in terms of ‘race’ but in terms of your specific ancestors.