Slavery in ancient Rome
206Rome Wants Elbow Room
23 Sep 2024
23:39¶ 61
“But in between there there’s at least one other thing about the decline of the republic, slaves. We’ve talked about slaves before. One thing…”
24:27¶ 62
“So slaves began to fill up the Roman market, and when the Roman soldiers did come home they would find that they’d been away…”
25:02¶ 63
“So slavery gutted the market for labor and people were left with not much. A lot of people cashed in their farms and where…”
205Alps and Americas: Rome and Their Enemies
9 Sep 2024
3:35¶ 10
“It’s amazing how the slaves get regularly overlooked, as they do when you talk about ancient Greece, but they were a large percentage of…”
3:19¶ 9
“The thing that you’re going to run into with any discussion of Roman history is its class system, so we should say a few…”