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Inspired by my answer on @askhistorians yesterday, I decided to share a thread about #Slavery in #China. What was slavery like in China? Who were #Chinese slaves? And how did it differ from slavery in the West?
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Slavery in the sense of "coercion of labor from people who are not free to choose their fate" has a long history in China. For the most part, slaves came from various sources and were not always tied to race or ethnicity - although they sometimes were. 2/
Slaves could be peasants, commoners adopted into families, poor children, peasant women, eunuchs, and Chinese or non-Chinese captured in wars. Small amounts of black African slaves were brought by - and usually working under - Europeans and Arab traders. 3/
