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how much is that slave in the window?

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave

As a commodity, slaves created peculiar problems for the merchant. Apparently in the larger cities there were a few shops where slaves could be bought: in Rome in Nero’s time they were concentrated near the temple of Castor in the … Continue reading →

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