User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-1692583-20120709150353/@comment-5135631-20120709221411

That's a good point, but not that many European countries actually took part in the slave trade. It was mainly Spaniards, French, and unfortunately, the English/British, my people, though we were also the first to outlaw it in our lands and colonies. I'm not defending the slave trade in any way, but that only lasted about 300 years or less, and since most people didn't take part in it and our now thoroughly against the idea of slavery, then no, they shouldn't be punished, though the people who did it should have.

The Dunmer, on the other hand, have enslaved other races since they settled in Morrowind and the (vast) majority of families took part in the slave trade and encouraged it. Most Dunmer still also hate Argonians and see them as nothing more than savages and slaves, whereas Black people are now equal in almost all of Europe. If it weren't for red mountain, the Dunmer would still be slavers, whereas Europeans quitted it out of morality.