>Shafts were driven down into the ground and galleries opened where slaves, chained, naked, and branded, worked the seams illuminated only by guttering oil lamps. An unrecorded number were children. It was a miserable, dangerous, and brief life. [0]
It is always the most comfortable that consume the most vivid persecution porn. Feminists seem to have been doing this for a century longer than the The Handmaid's Tale, which was my introduction to that brand of mental illness.
[0] The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilisation
