CLAS 201 Lecture 18: Lecture 18 - Slavery
23 Nov 2018
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We can find slaves working in great numbers in almost all aspects of. Roman life (from the cities, to the country, to industries, trade, commerce, personal care industries) The ability for a slave to become free and integrated into society as either a free person or a citizen. Had rights and possibilites within the roman state and society in general. Social anxieties around the figure of the free slave within the roman world and the wealth they began to acquire within roman society. "slavery is critical to our understanding of the roman imperial economy as a product of organized violence and coercive integration" Slavery is largely textually silent and also materially. System that is exploitative, took people from their communities in various parts of the african continent. They end up on plantations to do agricultural labour. There was severe violence, families were torn apart.
