Also technically didnt the Pharoah & priests own everything? So everyone was a slave in a sense except those top dogs. Not at all comparable to what is popularly understood as slavery.
Really? Owning millions of human beings isn't slavery? Do tell..
That "just paying their taxes" trope is another common way of buying into the official BS.
Don’t go and get all “woke” !
Its how they organized their society. Very Eastern!
I think in China, the Mongols even the Ottomans you and your property existed only as long as the King, Emperor, Khan, Sultan said it did. For example at the Battle of Lepanto the Turkish Navy officers took all their wealth (or as much as they could carry!) with them on their person. There are remarks by League participants regarding this when recovering Turk bodies and prisoners. Why did they do this? Because person & property were not safe\guaranteed under the Ottomans. Again because they and theirs belong to the state. A slave society yes like Egypt but not even the same as Greece & Rome and certainly not the antebellum South. That’s my point!
And no I am not defending it!