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    Slavery in ancient Rome

    Institutionalized servitude in ancient Rome

    Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with few opportunities for advancement and little chance of freedom. Skilled and educated slaves—including artisans, chefs, domestic staff and personal attendants, entertainers, business managers, accountants and bankers, educators at all levels, secretaries and librarians, civil servants, and physicians—occupied a more privileged tier of servitude and could hope to obtain freedom through one of several well-defined paths with protections under the law. The possibility of manumission and subsequent citizenship was a distinguishing feature of Rome's system of slavery, resulting in a significant and influential number of freedpersons in Roman society. At all levels of employment, free working people, former slaves, and the enslaved mostly did the same kinds of jobs. Wikipedia

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    The Status of Slaves. The number and proportion of slaves in society varied over time and place, for example, in Augustan Italy the figure was as high as 30% whilst in Roman Egypt slaves made up only 10% of the total population. Although slave ownership was wider than in the Greek world, it remained a prerogative of the reasonably well-off. A more modest Roman business owner, artisan or ...
  3. historytools.org

    May 26, 2024Slavery was a fundamental part of ancient Roman society and economy. It is estimated that 25-30% of the population of the Roman Empire, or about 5 million people, were slaves.In Roman Italy itself there were an estimated 2-3 million slaves, representing 30-40% of the total population.[1]
  4. historyextra.com

    May 1, 2024The most prosperous households owned slaves for every imaginable purpose, purchased at the slave markets found in almost all Roman towns. Whether a slave was needed for cooking, for childcare or as a concubine, during the late Roman republic at least, supply was high and trade was brisk. Read more | How Roman enslaved people could buy their freedom

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