RE: slave exports

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:05:57 +1200


At 11:52 26/03/01 +0100, you wrote:

> > >since they clearly do have the normal
> > >exchange-of-labour industries, IIRC.
> >
> > Exactly what do you refer to? The corvee is a Dara Happan institution

>Stuff like what we call today the service economy - body servants, cooks,
>etc etc.

For the Lunars, those functions will be fulfilled by slaves.

>No, sure - in most ways the triangle trade is operating with rather
>different circumstances. But big chunks of the population of Rome were
>slaves or ex-slaves.

The Lunar Empire isn't Rome either. Given that only 2% of the Empire are Lunars, I don't think slaves are all that significant.

--Peter Metcalfe

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