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Slave Categories
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Great House Slaves
- More like servants
- For example, Cicero's secretary
- Slave relationships were complicated.
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Great Estate Slaves
- Mines
- Plantation
- Dreadful, Horrid, Existence
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Comparison to "New" Slavery
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One ethnic group was not targeted
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Slave Methods
- Warfare Prisoners
- Enslavement could be to pay
off a debt.
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Slave parents
- "Family Slaves" more privileged than most.
Generally educated with the children.
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Not just prized for Physical Abilities
- Greek slaves were
prized for learnedness
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Slaves were frequently desired for "high" arts
- Education was recommended
- Desired
- Slaves tutored free children
- Subtopic 3
- in 1800, 1 slave per 25 american
- in 44 BC, 1 slave per 4 citizen
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Spartacus
- Appian
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Crassus
- conquers Spartacus' uprising
- Spartacus gained support
from some free poors
- Died: 71 BC
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Film: Glorifies him as a liberator.
- In reality, he was out for savage personal gain
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Seneca
- tutor to the Emperor Nero
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Slave letters
- 50s AD
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Influential on the Renaissance
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They had Serfs
- Worse off than city slaves