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When in human history did conquerers not also take slaves from those they conquered?
As far as I understand, the practice goes back to the Akkadian empire. Iβm not saying taking slaves is good or natural. The thing I see as problematic from your assertion; is that slavery was at any time in human history a form of progress. I donβt see any reason to make such concessions to the right.
If they want to paint themselves in apologia for slavery, we should mock them for it.
(Edit: Which to your credit, is what your meme is doing.)
Pre-state societies, ie chiefdoms, tribes, and bands in the anthropological sense, generally do not take slaves as they lack the social mechanisms for consistently restraining the liberty of individuals. Expulsion or genocide are generally the results of insufficiently similar groups that are defeated.
I've read of genocide (massacre of all males, even the children) of a defeated Yanomami village by a victorious one. Same culture, yet they commited genocide.