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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Rome and slavery

Slavery was common in the Roman Empire
. For the most part, people were either born into slavery, a prisoner of war, or sold themselves into slavery to pay off debts. “Unlike pre-Civil War America, in the Roman world slaves could own property, earn money, and often save enough to buy their own freedom.”