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    I don’t think you understand what abolitionism is. Abolitionism isn’t “Individuals don’t want to be slaves”, abolitionism is the idea that slavery, as a facet of society, should be abolished.

    Notably, Sparatacus’s rebellion, which is often cited by such views, enslaved numerous people in their rampage across the Italian peninsula.

    This is not a revisionist view. Ironically, the view being presented, of the timelessness of abolitionism, is itself revisionist and, for that matter, extremely fringe.

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        11 hours ago

        The French Revolution would be a hard one for them to miss. Even accounting for Eurocentric biases, the French Revolution is a pretty major event.

        Spartacus, probably not. Even from a Western standpoint the impact is mostly in cultural references rather than the way it affected the course of history.