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slavery to serfdom: the empire strikes black
There were some hairsplitting decisions in slavery such as between the general flow of human cargo and sub-categories such as the commercial transactions regarding eunuchs for example. But distinctions have to be drawn. The ancient world was in many respects … Continue reading
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Tagged busby berkeley, Cicero, Don Nardo, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Greek slavery history, Herodotus, Lionel Casson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Grant, Robert C. Davis, Roman Empire serfdom, Roman Empire slavery, Roman slave revolts, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca, Seneca Roman stoic, Slave revolts Roman EMpire, Spartacus slave revolt
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how much is that slave in the window?
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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Tagged Capua slave market, Cicero, Don Nardo, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Leon Gerome, Josephus Flavius, Lionel Casson, Michael Grant, Robert C. Davis, Roman slave markets, Roman slave revolts, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca, Seneca Greek stoic, Slavery Ancient Rome
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deathbed manumissions
It is a particular institution of the Old World: slavery. The Greeks and Romans practiced slavery and condoned it- for war, for luxury, and for business. But even they knew it to be evil… Bills of sale were usually written … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Roman emperor, Edward Gibbon, Gustave Boulanger, Horace Roman poet, Jean Leon Gerome, Kevin Bales, Kevin Bales Free the Slaves, Robert C. Davis, Slave trade history, Slave Trading Roman Empire, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in the Roman Empire
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