Original sentence: According to a decree by Queen Isabella of Castile and also later under British colonial rule, slavery was considered to be illegal unless the people involved were so depraved that their conditions as slaves would be better than as free men.Marvin Harris has analyzed cannibalism and other food taboos.This legal requirement may have led to conquerors exaggerating the extent of cannibalistic practices, or inventing them altogether, as demonstrations of cannibalistic tendencies were considered evidence of such depravity
Edited sentence: According to a decree by Queen Isabella of Castile and also later under British colonial rule, slavery was considered to be legal unless the people involved were so depraved that their conditions as slaves would be better than as free men.Demonstrations of cannibalistic tendencies were considered evidence of such depravity, and hence reports of cannibalism became widespread.Marvin Harris has analysed cannibalism and other food taboos.This legal requirement might have led to conquerors exaggerating the extent of cannibalistic practices, or inventing them altogether