I believe that he was met with Opposition by the church
Maybe you could draw a person pathing on a bible in a court room as someone supporting a claim
Isolationist because they had no intentions on joining the war before pearl harbor
The enslaved people in Sparta were called Helots.
They were actually the majority of the people in the land dominated by Sparta, according to Herodotus, as many as seven times more than the Spartans.
They worked primarily in agriculture.
The Helots were regularly killed by the Spartans.