Re: in character (fwd)

[clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)]

Poster: clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)

Alanna:

> More than hinted, Pedro.  Our school systems, such as they are,  make
> passing mention of Greek and Roman slaves and then treat American
> plantation slavery as if it sprang full-blown from the head of
> Medusa, with no antecedents whatsoever.  

Oh, I'm fully aware of the fact that slavery was a part of the
mediaeval economy. By and large, though, it died out in Atlantic
Europe some time after the Viking period. It appears to have been
very much alive in the Mediterranean coasts of Africa, Asia, and
Europe well into modernity. Reports from the Sudan and Mauretania
show that it's hardly dead in Africa.

> On the contrary, chattel slavery persisted all through and well past
> period.  The Church didn't allow good Christians  to hold other
> Christians as slaves, but infidels and heathens were fair game.

Actually, it looks like Christians sometimes took other
Christians as slaves-see what became of the Children's Crusade.
:-(

We don't recreate slavery in the SCA, as a rule, but our personae
would have lived in a world where it was normal-yet another
reason why I think a fully realized persona probably isn't
possible.

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