Roman Slavery
In Our Time: History
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The Third Significant Source of Slavery in the Roman Empire
There's a rather chilling part of roman law that concerns essentially the circumstances under which you can get a refund for a defective product. Itis clear thatt, they treat the slave population as something. Thath is a resource that should reproduce itself. And pan mediterranean, you create an opportunity for ontriponers. There are clearly men organizations who are engaged in slaving. Some of that is moving slaves that have been produced by conquest. But it’s quite clear that thereare also people preying on vulnerable populations,. People in transit essentially abducting people.
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