Category talk:Slaveholders

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[edit] Scope

I assume this category should include all slaveholders, without regard to place or time. I believe that many Biblical figures were slave owners, plus many Eurpoeans, Brazilians, etc. Do serfs count? -Will Beback 21:24, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, I created the category, and I intended it as a correlative with Category:Slaves, which includes (inter alia) Roman slaves, white Europeans enslaved in North Africa, victims of American race slavery, etc. That's a pretty wide scope of course, but as the category grows it can (as with Category:Slaves) by broken down by region, era, and/or other characteristics.

As for serfs and the lords with control over them, well, I don't know. I think that they count as slaves and masters in every meaningful sense of the word, but I don't know how other people intend to use the words, and I think it depends directly on what people decide to do over at Category:Slaves. Maybe you could raise the question of serfs specifically in the Talk page over there?

HTH. --Radgeek 00:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Serfdom is a listed under category:slaves, FWIW. -Will Beback 00:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Also, this should be merged with Category:Slave owners. -Will Beback 00:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Serf owners should most certainly not be included. Serfdom is related but different. Hawkestone 02:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)