Slavery of the sort that you seem to be describing wasn't limited to Ancient Egypt, I believe. Indeed, if I'm not much mistaken, it has existed throughout most (perhaps all) of known human history to one degree or another. I think that there may be situations in which it persists today, even excluding trafficking.
Wikipedia has an article on the subject which you may find useful: Link
edited 15th Oct '16 8:13:42 AM by ArsThaumaturgis
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Well firstly, why are you considering depowering her & making her a slave? If it was a temporary phase, you could spin the whole event that she became more lonely & detached from humanity because of that highly traumatic point in time.
In addition, is she the protagonist or someone the real protagonist is trying to meet? Honestly, it would help a lot if you explained more about her & the setting.
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Perhaps she started as a Nubian slave in Egypt, and was offered the chance to escape it by becoming Earth's guardian, which of course would separate her from humanity. Maybe she was working at Akhetaten, which would be a nice comparison - a city built to honour the new monotheistic religion, and her essentially becoming a god. After about 3000 years she (for whatever reason) loses her powers and returns to earth, either in America or Western Europe. It's now about 1800 and, because her original Nubian looks have returned (or perhaps she never lost them?) she is mistaken for a runaway slave and is returned to slavery even worse than what she had in Egypt.
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My character has immense magical power. Her role is to be earth's guardian from space.
I want to depower her at some point and make her a slave at some point. I tried ancient Egypt. Because that's a period slaves were had. Modern day slavery (trafficking) is still an issue but it's not the same context.
But I am having second thoughts as I also want her to be earth's guardian for the longest and closest period to our era, to accentuate her loneliness and how far she is from humanity. As being earth's guardian means being alone in this context. But ancient Egypt misses a lot of human story.
What would you advice me?
edited 15th Oct '16 6:45:26 AM by FallenLegend
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