Scholmeria wrote:Ixzara wrote:If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the general consensus among the abolitionists were to free the slaves, but not as equals to white men. Rather, they wanted to have tiered citizenship status, with whites being at the top.
As for the philosophical question, that has many factors that would need to be considered. For one, what was education like during those times? Not the school type, but rather the cultural perception of what was moral and what was not.
True. Slavery was back than not considered something immoral back than. There was even Aristotles work where he defens slavery (race in his theory has nothing to do). Since he was part of every school curriculum I would not wonder if there was such perception of slavery.
Exactly. The modern concept of Slavery was a norm for well over 400 years after the Renaissance and existed centuries before then, albeit in different forms (e.g. serfdom) tracing all the way back to Greek times and I believe even Babylonian. It isn't that hard to postulate that it may have been us in the 19th century that began changing the norm, which up until that time, was the norm. Having abolished slavery and changing attitudes about it is literally a very recent historic development. After all, most countries in the world didn't recognize all humans as equal until the 20th century.