[BANESTORM] Ending slavery in the Evil Empire

[Varyon]

Well, first, what is the nature of slavery in the Evil Empire? Is it a punishment for crimes? The lot of those on the losing side of a war? An option for paying off a large debt? A way to leave your family better off than they were before (you sell yourself - or your parents sell you - into slavery, your family gets a decent sum of money)? Is it racially based? What kinds of jobs do slaves typically work - do they just provide raw muscle for unskilled labor, or can you find them working just about any job? What kinds of people own slaves - are they a curiosity for the superwealthy, commonly owned by landowners, or does any family above the means of a peasant typically own one as a general-purpose servant? How you go about disentangling your economy from any degree of reliance on slave labor (a necessary step to abolish it, unless you're fine suffering an economic recession when you do), and how the populace and elites will respond, is going to be heavily dependent on the above.