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If you're going to apply modern standards, there are no good people in most of human history.
That's correct, were all trash ๐ค further, I'm pretty sure his slaves didn't appreciate being slaves even at that time....
They did not. But did having them automatically make him an irredeemably bad person by the standards of the time? Life is more complex than that.