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Slavery
Slavery in Ancient Rome - Classics Conference
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where were slaves obtained? | in warfare, by piracy, kidnapping, birth to slave parents, parental abandonment |
| How were slaves gotten from warfare? | prisoners of war would be slaves, and besieged and taken cities would be plundered for slaves |
| What was the slave-selling process after military victory? | slave-dealers -- MANGONES -- would get human plunder from victorious soldiers and sell them to retail slave-dealers who would auction them off |
| What information legally had to be provided about slaves? | Their nationality (particular nationalities were associated with certain traits) and any defects -- physical or behavioural |
| What were frequent runner slaves called? | FUGITIVUS |
| What was one major slave market? | island of Delos on the Aegean Sea |
| Where were many Roman auctions held? | in the Forum |
| What trait fetched the highest price? | education |
| What were common uses of slaves? | mines, rock quarries, farmhands, households slaves, teachers, physicians, surgeons, accountants, craftsmen, sometimes gladiators |
| For what skilled occupations would slaves be hired? | Household slaves, teachers, physicians, surgeons, accountants, teachers |
| What high levels of teacher could slaves reach? | Litterator, Ludi Magister, Grammaticus, Rhetor |
| Where did the most educated slaves often come from? | Greece |
| What could gladiators win? | public acclaim, prizes, their freedom |
| What are 3 examples that would have slave hierarchies | household slaves, craftsmen mentors with apprentices, gladiator instructors to gladiators |
| Who was Cicero's trusted slave? | Tiro |
| Why might masters free their slaves? | exceptional service, generosity, ostentation |
| Why did laws have to be passed about leaving slaves in ones will? | People were giving their slaves so much to draw a large crowd of mourners to their funeral that their own heirs weren't getting anything |
| How could you become free as a slave? | your master could free you, you could buy your freedom, you could perform 6 years of national service (eg fire brigade, ship-building, run a bakery) |
| How could you accelerate your emancipation? | If you had a child with a free woman, as a slave man, and it lived past 1 year old |
| What were freed slaves called (Latin)? | LIBERATI |
| What were freedmen's offspring, legally? | full citizens |
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