SLAVERYBy Doug Rives

How To Become a Slave

Captured In Battle Abandoned Child Sold as a Slave Child Of A Slave Crimes Evading Military Service Sailors Sold By Pirates

Where Did Slaves Normally Come From?

Mainly from captured Provinces Slave Market Sold them

Slave Markets

Auctions Stood out in the Street or auction house Anyone could buy them

What did slaves do?

Could do any job around the house Teachers, cooks, farm or mine workers,

hair dressers, Servant

Difference between Jobs of Slaves

Household Slaves treated better most of the time

Cooks and Teachers were valuable Farmers and miners had to do hard work Miners were often killed in the mines

Freedom

Pay the amount used to buy you Very Hard Had No source of Income really Some Slaves were bought at ridiculous

Prices

Freedom (cont.)

Freed by masters Had to go to the consul and show that

you wanted this man to be free

Slave rebellions

First Servile War Eunus, a farmer, led them Claimed he was a prophet Crushed by Roman Army

Rebellions

Second Servile War Slaves revolted in Sicily Crushed by Army again

Third Servile War

Spartacus Gladiator Broke out of training camp Looted nearby towns and gained

members Government sent out weak army Rebels Crushed army Gained Mt. Vesuvius

Third Servile War (cont.)

By the time the gov. sent out another army Rebels numbered about 70,000

Spartacus decided to leave Vesuvius On The way defeated two armies Finally, the gov. sent out 10 legions Killed or Crucified rebels Spartacus assumedly died with his

men

Role of Freemen

Gained all rights of Citizenship when freed

Except could not run for office Kids could run for office though Could have any job Freemen were not liked even though they

were now free

Difference between American nd Roman Slavery

American Based On Race Mistreated Slaves

often Did Not have

opportunity to be free

Romans Treated Slaves well

most of the time Could Be Free Were not shunned

as much as in America

Similarities

Were Sold in slave markets Both were used in manual labor Slaves were both taken from home

countries

Saturnalia

When Slaves and Masters traded places Honored Saturn Symbolizes golden age of man When all men were equal

Economy

Slavery ruined economy due to cheap labor

True citizens could often not find a job Destroyed economy

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