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The Black Sea area was a region which had been an ancient slave market already during Roman times. Strabo noted the "Pontic" slaves, Scythians, Paphlagonians and other ethnicities, who had been taken as war prisoners and then sold, or who had been sold by their parents, and sold to the Roman Empire. [353]
Acta Diurna (Latin for Daily Acts, sometimes translated as Daily Public Records or as Daily Gazette) were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. [1] They were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places such as the Forum of Rome.
Ancillae (plural) (singular, ancilla) were female house slaves in ancient Rome, as well as in Europe during the Middle Ages. [1] In Medieval Europe, slavery was gradually replaced by serfdom, but a small number of female slaves were imported as household servants for the wealthy, most commonly in Italy, Spain and France. [1]
Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Ancient Roman slaves and freedmen (6 C, 7 P) C. Crisis of the Roman Republic (6 ...
Slavery was more prominent in Roman antiquity than anywhere else in the ancient world, save for Greece. [9] Slaves who lacked skills or education performed agricultural or other forms of manual labor. More slaves were tasked with agricultural labour than any other form of work. [9]
Freedmen in ancient Rome existed as a distinct social class (liberti or libertini), with former slaves granted freedom and rights through the legal process of manumission. The Roman practice of slavery utilized slaves for both production and domestic labour, overseen by their wealthy masters. Urban and domestic slaves especially could achieve ...
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Greece in pre-Roman times consisted of many independent city-states, each with its own laws. All of them permitted slavery, but the rules differed greatly from region to region. Greek slaves had some opportunities for emancipation, though all of these came at some cost to their masters. The law protected slaves, and though a slave's master had ...