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069 Slaves and Foreigners

The History of Ancient Greece

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Aristotle's Arguments on Slavery

Aristotle made a distinction between what he calls slaves by physicists or natural law, referring to those born in captivity. He also talks about the manumission of slaves as incentive for good work from them. According to Aristotle, the daily routine of slaves could be summed up in three words, work, discipline, and feeding.

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