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50. Rome: A Slave Society

Empire

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The Redefinition of the Captured

Slavery was used in the worst kind of proto industrial complexes of the Roman world. The slaves were never visible and they've left almost no record in archaeology. Their lack of identity is mirrored by the fact that we only very rarely seen them. They lose everything right down to the marker of their individuality.

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