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In what world are capitalism and slavery coexistent, even hypothetically? They're opposites. Capitalism is freedom.

You can have private trade without civil rights and personal freedoms. Was segregation-era America not capitalist?

Private trade, yes. Free trade, not so much.

There is a reason why slavery was abolished on the brink of capitalism birth. It's because capitalism depends on free trade, not just any kind of it - the freer the better it grows.

Not if certain people aren't allowed to privately trade.

At that point you're just arguing that capitalism has never existed, so perhaps you should use another term for your "true Scotsman" version to reduce confusion when talking to people who use the common definition.

You sound like a modern-day Marxist denouncing Leninism as nothing but a "perversion" of socialism.

>Capitalism is freedom.

*freedom for the property owner. Which is why it can facilitate a slave trade, property is a limitation of freedom.

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