slavery was the norm for 10,000+ years everywhere in the world until white men in America and Europe stopped it.
That’s pretty true, initiated by parliamentary action in great Britain. They banned it at the height of their power banning it in all their colonial holdings from sea to sea.
In contrast, the world of Islam said f/you., those people have no rights. Slavery continues in over ten African nations today.
Yes and no.
technically in ancient India there weren’t slaves - but the shudra caste were bonded laborers who weren’t bought or sold, but still lived miserable lives.
And slavery was ended in places where Christianity took hold — Europe ended slavery in the 5th century. Ditto for North Africa, Egypt and the Levant and Anatolia —> where Christianity went, there slavery ended (albeit slowly).
We have to thanks Wilberforce for the ending of black slavery.