Two thousand years? Shoot, that is just the modern AD era.
There was no time in recorded history without slavery, before the Europeans abolished it.
Slavery existed in North Africa until the French stamped it out in the 1930s. I think the last open slave auction took place in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s. And it exists sub-rosa all over the Islamic world to this day, where it is explicitly approved under Sharia law.
What a PC joke it is to blame Europeans for slavery, when they were the ones who abolished this ancient human institution.
Don’t forget, slavery of black people in the new World satrted with a black man suing in court to enslave another black man. Slavery started in North America with blacks enslaving blacks, not whites enslaving blacks.
A Middle Easterner and his wife were tried and convicted in Milwaukee a couple of years ago for keeping a slave for at least 20 years here.