In the minds of most people, ancient slaves are the lowest status, they have no human rights, and even bullied by the master arbitrarily, in the eyes of the master, they are at least objects, and even some high-ranking officials and nobles use a group of slaves to hunt games, open the historical data can see that ancient slaves are real, and most of the slaves are women, even the word "slave" is the word "female".
According to the book of Han, "human slaves bear children", the children of slaves are still slaves, because ancient human beings originated from women, and there were "female beginnings." In fact, in the beginning of primitive tribes, the status of women was much higher than that of men, because women could produce offspring, while men did not have this ability.
Later, slowly entering the agricultural era, people learned to hunt, collect food, etc., so that men's physical advantages were highlighted, and later men's voice became larger, their status exceeded that of women, and then women's status became lower, and even some insulting words had the word "female", such as "rape, prostitute, prostitute", etc., while slaves have always been mainly borne by women.
The main source of slaves in ancient times was two aspects, the first was the defeated captives, when the various tribes often fought wars, the victorious side would take the people of the defeated side captive, driving these people to engage in dangerous and heavy labor, and they could be arbitrarily suppressed.
In this way, gradually formed a system of effort, starting from the Shang Dynasty, slaves also have a part of the source, that is, the families of criminals, those who have committed crimes, after being raided, the family members basically became slaves, men mainly engaged in manual labor, while women were mainly driven by people as geji, the policy during the Yuan Dynasty was more barbaric, and many people became slaves of the imperial court.
In ancient times, slaves were beaten and scolded and could not resist, similar to domestic animals, and could even be transferred to others at will, and slaves could also marry and have children, but their descendants were destined to be slaves at birth and lost the right to free control, which has to be said to be very sad.
Now there are no real slaves in society, but modern people are more stressed, and there are many kinds of slaves, such as house slaves, kanu, etc., in fact, similar to the ancient slaves, anyway, life is very painful.