The Romans depended increasingly on slavery for their economic wealth. However,the slaves in Rome came from all corners of the Empire and beyond its extensive borders.
The Atlantic slave trade was different.Slavery had to be "morally"justified by the slave masters, church leaders and the politicians of the time and the justification came in the that black Africans were supposedly subhuman . Here was the justification for the modern racism which has so poisoned many.
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