Roman Slavery
In Our Time: History
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The Impact of the Slavery in Rome
In the city, it's certainly the case that a wide range of different sorts of jobs are being done by slaves. This is going hand in hand with the really dramatic expansion of rome and of other cities out in the countryside. There is a sort of complex process which we could describe as displacement. The old story used to be that peasants were being driven off the land to make way for slave estates, which were o profit orientated and benefiting the benefiting the free people. But this new story is that, to some extent, the peasants are moving of their own accord. They are migrating towards the cities, perhaps because they see better opportunities there. Perhaps also, as alrica mentioned,
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