Interestingly we never mentioned Africa in this. But we should note that heritable, permanent, chattel slavery was a product of the liberal West. This is also the only instance where Americans point to the moral standards of allegedly inferior societies as self exemption. https://twitter.com/rocky21162116/status/1014647405722128385 …
Very true. Mediterranean slavery of whites and Black people was not heritable and you could buy your freedom or be ransomed.