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• What if everything you were taught about slavery is wrong?

• Slavery was not invented by white Europeans. It was not driven by racism. It was universal — practiced by nearly every major civilization on earth — Capture and obligation.

  In The True Origins of Slavery, C.W. Morton traces human bondage from the ancient world to the present, following the evidence wherever it leads — even when it demolishes the story you were given in school.

• Inside you'll discover:

• • The first legal slave owner to win his case in an American court was himself a Black man

  • How debt — not race — filled the slave markets of Rome, Babylon, and Han China

  • Why the Spartans enslaved fellow Greeks, and what that tells you about the real engine of bondage

  • How the transatlantic trade actually worked — and who was selling

  • The moment in 17th-century Virginia when slavery became racial — and why it happened afterthe system already existed

  • Why Islamic law organized enslavement by religion while racial prejudice grew alongside it

  This is not a book that minimizes American racism. It is a book that refuses to let a comforting myth stand in for history. Race was the justification slavery reached for in the Americas. War and debt were the reasons it existed everywhere.

  Provocative, rigorously documented, and impossible to put down — The True Origins of Slavery will change the way you think about the oldest institution in human civilization.

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