Slave Race: Difference between revisions

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This of course has some uncomfortable [[Real Life]] examples. (Note, however, that for the majority of history, slavery was ''not'' directly linked to race; beware of [[Eagleland Osmosis]]. Historically, most people got to be slaves by running into debt or getting kidnapped in war, then they'd be sold to raise cash or brought home with their captors as loot. Slaves could therefore be any ethnicity, including that of their master, and prior to capture, they might be any social class ranging from peasant to king.)

A species-wide [[Made a Slave]]. If the slave race has [[Stock Super Powers]] of some sort, this crosses over with [[Super Human Trafficking]]. If they're given high tech weapons to fight with, it's [[Low Culture High Tech]] (or if a low tech race enslaves a [[Proud Scholar Race Guy|Proud Scholar Race]] for their tech).

A species-wide [[Made a Slave]]. If the slave race has [[Stock Super Powers]] of some sort, this crosses over with [[Super Human Trafficking]]. If they're given high tech weapons to fight with, it's [[Low Culture, High Tech]] (or if a low tech race enslaves a [[Proud Scholar Race Guy|Proud Scholar Race]] for their tech).

== Comic Books ==

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* The Ood from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' were enslaved by humanity, most of whom believed they were a naturally servile race who enjoyed laboring for them. They were wrong.

** Another ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' example, the Zeronites from Eighth Doctor [[Doctor Who Magazine (Magazine)|comic strip]] "Sins Of The Fathers" who were created by the Kulkan Empire to maintain their long range missiles when they were fired. And there was no way out for them.

** Also from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the Slab might be this, but are more likely machines, it's left vague. ("Solid leather, all the way through. [[Hell Bent for Leather|Someone has got one hell of a fetish.]]")

** Also from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the Slab might be this, but are more likely machines, it's left vague. ("Solid leather, all the way through. [[Hell-Bent for Leather|Someone has got one hell of a fetish.]]")

** In "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S18 E5 Warriors Gate|Warriors' Gate]]", the Tharils, exploited for their navigational ability. To be quite just, they had exploited those abilities to act as slavers. One Tharil pleads with the Doctor that they have suffered long enough for what they did.

** Series 6 brings us the Gangers/Flesh.

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** The Nazis even invoked the above example; Heinrich Himmler once said that the Russian people would be the Helots to Germany's Spartans.

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyergus This genus of ants] enslaves other species of ants by invading their nests and killing their queens.

* Subverted with most modern forms of slavery. Nowadays, slavers [[Equal Opportunity Evil|don't give a crap about the ethnicity]] of their victims as long as they can [[Money Dear Boy|make money]] with them. Hell, most of them outright '''share''' their nationality, which [[Older Than They Think|is nothing new at all]]. Having slaves of a different race is the more unusual thing historically, because historically most slaves were war captives and generally you went to war with your neighbor who looked like you.

* Subverted with most modern forms of slavery. Nowadays, slavers [[Equal Opportunity Evil|don't give a crap about the ethnicity]] of their victims as long as they can [[Money, Dear Boy|make money]] with them. Hell, most of them outright '''share''' their nationality, which [[Older Than They Think|is nothing new at all]]. Having slaves of a different race is the more unusual thing historically, because historically most slaves were war captives and generally you went to war with your neighbor who looked like you.