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!
Ancient Egypt had slavery. That's the point.