'the founders being slaveholders is a matter of historical context' kind of falls down when several of the non-slaveholding founders (and Thomas Jefferson before he decided he loved money most) were going DON'T ENSLAVE PEOPLE YOU MONSTERS.
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there were plenty of anti-slavery views in ancient Greece and Rome! they weren't a *majority* but they existed.
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Er, I'm not sure I'd agree with that exactly about Greece/Rome. There were some critics of the treatment of slaves, and you do get in Late Antique literature the tentative beginnings of abolitionist thinking. But that's all I've seen, though I may well have missed something.
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Even enslaved persons who obtained freedom don't seem to have had abolition in mind always. The Discourses (written by Arrian, but ostensibly the thought of the once-enslaved Epictetus), with a section on slavery and freedom in book 4, pretty clearly has no interest in abolition.
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Diodorus (via Photius) relates that the previously-enslaved-rebels on Sicily put others into bondage almost immediately to make weapons and enslaved war captives just as any other ancient army. Now that's tricky evidence, of course, since that could just be Diodorus' slander...
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