RENOWNED Latin poet (and citizen) Horace was the son of a freed slave. That kind of social mobility did NOT exist under US chattel slavery.
As an aside, while I was looking into Roman concepts of citizenship I came across this tidbit:
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Remind your Defender of Western Civ trolls of that fact when they try to say the Great White Civilization was 1st to end slavery.
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American racial caste heritable bond-labor =/= Roman slavery (or many other ancient forms of bondage.)
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