REL-2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: First Servile War, Plebs, Equites
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Two classes in rome: upper and lower. Inherit social class through your mother; roman soldiers allowed to rape, Roman soldiers considered citizens; don"t want everyone to claim citizenship. Lower class: slaves: freedpeople (liberti or libertini): people who had been slaves but had bought their freedom or had been manumitted. Not fully free because they had various restrictions on their rights and owed certain duties to former masters, who now become their patrons: slaves (servi): slaves. As the republic expanded beyond italian peninsula, slaves no longer as educated as their master. Slave numbers peaked towards the end of the republic and early empire. Growth of slavery: romans were only to be sold into slavery outside of rome, slaves were mostly among the main booty during julius caesar"s gallic. The work of slaves: slave girls and boys were often sexually exploited. Third: spartacus led great slave rebellion.
