Roman Slavery
In Our Time: History
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What Do We Know About Slavery?
The evidence that we mainly look at is the early imperial period, the first, second, third century a d. For this period, we have very good evidence. So i's about 400 years rough, which is say, half the time we have for roman history. But where we start in the sixth seventh, seven, sixth century, it's very little that we really know that slaves did. This starts later. They capture these er great number of slaves, and it coincides with an economic development. We come back to that probably later as well.
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