TIL chattel slavery goes back to ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, and ancient Rome.
For those who think I'm just saying this cuz I somehow endorse slavery or something else really stupid, I am not. I am doing this to contradict this racist and stupid idea that ancient slavery was somehow better or not as bad that a lot of academics are trying to float (https://theconversation.com/dismantling-the-myth-that-ancient-slavery-wasnt-that-bad-205801) when it was the exact same kind of slavery that we saw with the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and modern slave markets that unfortunately still exist in this world. This is not endorsing slavery, it is literally the opposite - showing that race-based or ethnicity basically has always been a problem and in no world was the kind of slavery you saw in ancient civilizations somehow an improvement, in fact it was the blueprint. It is just nauseating to know that there's actual people trying to rewrite history and act like there is an ancient good form of slavery and a more modern bad form of slavery when the same terrible kind of slavery existed in ancient times and unfortunately to the modern day in certain areas.