[quote=SK in CV]The prohibition against slavery is a government standard. Not a free market or libertarian standard. Prior to that government standard, it (slavery) existed in the free market.[/quote]

Sorry. Slavery does not and cannot appear in a “free market” by definition. A “free market” being one where you are free from others infringing upon your personal and propety rights.

The fact that slavery was allowed without pentaly was the government standard in place at the time.

I believe that the laws of economics are natural and not determined through the state.

Economics is a pretty nebulous thing. Hard to say if it is natural or not. I say it is just a way of describing and sometimes predicting behavior. I can’t say if that behavior (i.e. trade) is “natural” or not. But, it does happen, whether government is involved or not.