Since the establishment of Jolof as an Imperial protectorate, the Elysian Empire would have a reliable foodhold on the African continent. Elysian slaves would, if punished, be subjected to corporal punishment, sexual exploitation torture, and summary execution Like their Roman ancestors, slaves in Elysia were considered property under law and held no legal rights at all. Living conditions would be brutal, and their lives short. Unskilled slaves, or those enslaved as a punishment such as prisoners of war, would come to be worked on farms, in mines, and at mills.
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While providing manual labour, many slaves performed many domestic services, and might be employed at highly skilled jobs and professions. Slavery would be common across the Elysian Empire and played an important role within society and the economy. The primary reason for this would come to not be for political or spiritual motivations, but for an economic motivation. Through her seemingly tyrannical means of securing absolute control of the Elysian government and holding onto power through brutal means, the progressive appearing Empress was portrayed by anti-imperial propaganda was an embodiment of Elysian absolutism and tyranny, and through her rule of countless nations, was a danger to the very nature of the world itself.Ī Linen Market with enslaved Africans.
Despite her populist support for the common man, Maria herself as a person was easily angered, domineering and insatiably power hungry, with the source of this deep-seated anger stemmed from a failed relationship with her own father, Emperor Issakios, who himself was a cruel megalomaniacal man. The Empress would become increasingly arbitrary, reactionary and fearful of plots against her. Maria would give citizenship to many residents in the far regions of the Elysian Empire, begin an initiated land reform and support for veterans for the territoriality vast Empire, centralize the bureaucracy of the Empire to empower the monarchy and build a safer and more secure society from the Empress’s point of view.ĭespite some of her reforms coming to include a benefit to the Empire, political freedoms would come to be significantly diminished, and the true intentions of the populist and authoritarian autocrat would come to be seen as tyrannical for the first time by mainstream society. The Empress would reduce the number of Senators within the Senate by almost forty percent, and empowering those who had remained loyal to the monarchy despite the new senate retaining a ceremonial position in the new government.Įmpress Maria, after assuming direct control of government, would finally realize her desires for political reform and began a seriesof social and governmental reforms to redesign the continent as she would see fit, while appeasing the populace of the realm despite usurping the senate. The political instability that would plague the Imperial Senate would be washed away, and the senatorial factionalism and corruption among with chaotic gridlock would be steadily dealt with. Absolute power would be held within the hands of the Empress, who had styled herself as the Autocrat of the Elysians, and had spent the remainder of the following year ensuring that there were no political threats to undermine her new powers.
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