I have been asked for my thoughts on the 'battle' part of @BretDevereaux' wildly successful blog series on the myth of Sparta. With his permission, I shall now proceed to apply pedantry to his pedantry. 1/helphttps://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vi-spartan-battle/ …
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...a society that is anywhere from 66% (Figueira's figures) to 85% (my own working estimate explained in the giant caption on the Sparta box chart) brutalized enslaved people - that is a pretty uniquely bad society.
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I actually struggled to find any point of comparison. South Carolina - the least free U.S. state in 1860 - was 57.2% enslaved (only two states prior to the civil war had majority enslaved populations, S. Carolina and Mississippi).
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