> The "enemy" were people he had worked alongside hours earlier
I think you mean people he had slaved under - let's call a spade a spade here, they could have talked cordially and all, they did not consider themselves his peers - the only people a chattel slave 'works' alongside with are other slaves
> In many cases - on both sides of the conflict - the "enemy" were slaves as well. Many of those who were free were conscripts.
Are you seriously equating conscription with chattel slavery? A chattel slave is the property of his master, his children are automatically his master's property at birth, like livestock. How many newly-born were conscripted, on either side? How many women were conscripted? Were entire families conscripted on the basis of the father's conscription?
I think you mean people he had slaved under - let's call a spade a spade here, they could have talked cordially and all, they did not consider themselves his peers - the only people a chattel slave 'works' alongside with are other slaves