#318 | A Job From Hell | Slaves in Ancient Rome
English Learning for Curious Minds
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What Happened to Female Slave Slavery?
Women were forced into prostitution before they even reached puberty. They would suffer a lifetime of abuse, with there usually being no way to leave the role. Owners branded their slaves and tattooed them so that they could be easily caught if they tried to run away. Despite this terrible treatment, as Rome developed, the rights of slaves improved slightly. In the fourth and fifth decades of the first century AD, Emperor Claudius declared that a slave abandoned by his owner was then freed. After him, Emperor Nero allowed slaves to complain about their masters in a court of law. A proposal had once been made to the Senate, that slaves were different clothes to free citizens, so they could be more easily identified
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