Quote from Damnedman
There's a big difference between why people became indentured servants and why Africans were systematically enslaved. What does slavery in ancient times have to do with anything if we're talking about serfdom in Europe and slavery in America? In any case, I don't understand why you keep bringing up ...
I find it amusing that you continually attempt to downplay the plights of the serfs. You seemingly claim that being a serf is better than being a slave. That is false and the reason is rather simple. Imagine seeing a sliver of hope but never being able to grasp it. Imagine leaving the land you are confined to to fight and most likely die for a lord that beats you and you people for failing to make quota by a mere bushel. Imagine seeing the lands around where things roam free only to be crushed again and again with no hopes to escape.
Now imagine slavery. Pure slavery. You will never know what you do not have. You have no quotas. You have no idea that you are suppressed. You have no idea that you are being wronged. You can not do anything but you do not know that.
It has always been said that knowing what freedom and hope is but never being able to grasp it, never being able to claim it as your own, is far worse than ignorance. That knowing is worse than not realizing. That being caged in better than being let to explore with a leash. Because a caged bird does not know that it is caged. A caged bird views the world he is in as the whole world while one that is let to roam and see the world but is captured will long for the outside once more yet never grasp it.
The physical pain is worse for the slave but the mental pain eats away at the serf til the day he dies.
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