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Disability in the Ancient World

You're Dead to Me

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I'm Honking My Enslavement, Claxon

In the ancient world, enslavement is the phrase we like to use now. Under normal circumstances, enslaved people read and wrote for their enslavers. But it's for the rich, regardless if they were people with disabilities or not. We hear about one wealthy man named Nius Domitius Tullus who complained about having to lick his slaves' fingers when they fed him. There was another wealthy man who lost both of his feet to frostbite, and then he needed his slaves to carry him around from place to place. And a young man called Atticus Bradua, who had trouble learning to read, so his father, Super Ridge, purchased enough slaves to give them each

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