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The extent to which slaves were used as a labour force in farming is disputed. It is certain that rural slavery was very common in Athens, and that ancient Greece did not have the immense slave populations found on the Roman latifundia. Corinthian black-figure terra-cotta votive tablet of slaves working in a mine, dated to the late seventh ...
Some well-qualified public slaves did skilled office work such as accounting and secretarial services: "the greater part of the business of Rome seems to have been conducted through slaves." [469] Often entrusted with managerial roles, they were permitted to earn money for their own use, [470] and they were paid a yearly stipend from the ...
Rome differed from Greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become Roman citizens. After manumission , a slave who had belonged to a citizen enjoyed not only passive freedom from ownership, but active political freedom ( libertas ), including the right to vote, though he could not run for public office. [ 18 ]
Records of slavery in Ancient Greece go as far back as Mycenaean Greece. The origins are not known, but it appears that slavery became an important part of the economy and society only after the establishment of cities. [292] Slavery was common practice and an integral component of ancient Greece, as it was in
Romans practised slavery extensively, but slaves in Ancient Rome were part of various different ethnic groups and were not enslaved because of their ethnic affiliation. [109] According to the English historian Emma Dench , it was "notoriously difficult to detect slaves by their appearance" in Ancient Rome. [ 105 ]
Roman aristocrats warned of Greek influences corrupting Roman morals or Roman religious piety, and believed that excessive imitation of the Graeculus "Greekling" (a Roman slur for Greeks popularised by Cicero) would lead to the collapse of Rome. These views did not prevent the same anti-Greek Romans from adopting some elements of Greek culture ...
The slave trade gradually diminished, and in 1472, only 300 slaves are registered to have been trafficked from Caffa. [21] From the 1440s, Spain and Portugal started to import their slaves from first the Canary Islands, and then from Africa; initially via the trans-Saharan slave trade from Libya, and then by starting the Atlantic slave trade. [22]
Ancient Greek slaves and freedmen (2 C, 32 P) Pages in category "Slavery in ancient Greece" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.