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By Shane Maher Roman Slavery. Becoming A Slave Prisoners of War Italian tribes Carthage Greece Macedonia Gaul Other eastern Provinces.

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1 By Shane Maher Roman Slavery

2 Becoming A Slave Prisoners of War Italian tribes Carthage Greece Macedonia Gaul Other eastern Provinces

3 Slave Markets Expensive: Young Men Cooks Vernae Beautiful Slaves Quaestor Sub hasta venire or sub corona venire Contubernia Aediles Caps Scrolls

4 Jobs For Slaves Household: Heating the Hypocaust Dressing the Master Walk Children to School Clean the Villa Tidy the Garden Washing Clothes Carrying the Master in a Litter Dry Family after Bath Supply With constant food and Drink Walk Guests Home Farm Slaves Took care of Farm during war Did field work Collect Grain Plow Fields Olives Grapes Wheat

5 Freedom, Rebellions, and Freedmen Slaves had to make up what they were bought for Freed By Master 3 notable rebellions Spartacus Eunus “King Antiochus” Kleon Athenian Salvius Result was crucifixion Freedmen Took orders from former masters Could not hold office Could not marry former masters Sometimes developed lives

6 Spartacus Trained by army Was a Slave Was a gladiator He and 2 Gallic Gladiators led revolt 200 Gladiators 80 escaped Formed a band of 70,000 slaves Hid in alps Planned escape Fought Crassus in Spain Body never found

7 Roman Slaves VS. American Slaves Roman Slaves were prisoners of war American Slaves were captured from Africa American Slaves commonly worked in fields Roman Slaves worked fields, clothed their Masters, carried their Masters, and many other chores American Slaves escaped through the underground railroad or bought their freedom Roman Slaves killed themselves, were released, or bought their freedoms American Slaves were eventually freed by President Abraham Lincoln Roman Slaves were always slaves

8 Bibliography http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-slavery.php http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/roman_slaves.htm http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/slavery.html http://historylink102.com/Rome/roman-farming.htm http://www.hadrians.com/rome/romans/sources/roman_transport.html http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/slavesandslavery/a/spartacus.htm http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/people/freedmen.htm http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/scripts/sia/gallery.cgi http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/CGPrograms/Cast/ASP/Cast.asp?CastNo=D118 http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/slaves_freemen.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus http://libcom.org/history/many-enemies-there-are-slaves%E2%80%99-spartacus- politics-servile-rebellion-late-republic http://libcom.org/history/many-enemies-there-are-slaves%E2%80%99-spartacus- politics-servile-rebellion-late-republic http://www.crystalinks.com/romeslavery.html http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/index8.html


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