The Regressive Elements of Colonial Slavery

How the European subjugation of Africa was a significant moral step backwards from the same practices of ancient Rome.

Looking back on previous periods of history, it is easy to judge leaders for their perceived bloodthirsty tendencies and desire to make war on the surrounding tribes. We have come to know the horrors that world powers unleashed on their colonies over the last 4 centuries and, because we use the same terminology that the Romans did in their world, we jud…