RADIO ZEITGEIST: The "Let's Get Real About Slavery" Podcast

SUPPORT THE EVOLUTION of World Consciousness from "Homo Sapiens" to "Homo Noeticus" ..,  https://www.patreon.com/RadioZeitgeist RADIO ZEITGEIST The Daily ZEITcast blog.. https://radiozeitgeist.wordpress.com/ "Slavery predates written records and has existed in many cultures.[5] Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations because it requires economic surpluses and a substantial population density. Thus, although it has existed among unusually resource-rich hunter gatherers, such as the American Indian peoples of the salmon-rich rivers of the Pacific Northwest coast, slavery became widespread only with the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution about 11,000 years ago.[55] In the earliest known records, slavery is treated as an established institution. The Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BC), for example, prescribed death for anyone who helped a slave escape or who sheltered a fugitive.[56] The Bible mentions slavery as an established institution.[5] Slavery was practiced in almost every ancient civilization.[5] Such institutions included debt bondage, punishment for crime, the enslavement of prisoners of war, child abandonment, and the enslavement of slaves' offspring.[57].."