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Slavery doesn't involve kidnapping if there is a legal framework for selling people (which by definition isn't kidnapping).


Are you talking about people born into slavery? Like from slave parents. Because the transition from non slave to slave is some form of kidnapping/trafficking.

The conversion of something to property is almost always a theft of some sort.


I think the Romans could sell their family members into slavery to pay off debts, etc.


Or themselves.




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