• marcos@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    it probably predates that understanding which is only about 14 years old

    Yeah, I had to check… Asterisx and Cleopatra had some dialog about how they weren’t slaves¹… Published in 1970.

    I’m not sure knowledgeable people ever thought they were built by slaves.

    1 - The author had some serious academic credentials.