Roman slavery was not based on race. Slaves in Rome might include prisoners of war, sailors captured and sold by pirates, or slaves bought outside Roman territory. In hard times, it was not ...

The wooden writing tablet is the only deed of a sale of a slave to have been found in Roman Britain.Originally it was coated with black wax in which the scribe wrote with a stilus, but now his ...

or the Gladiators’ War. Leading his army of runaway slaves, which has been estimated to have reached 100,000 men, Spartacus defeated a series of Roman attacks using tactics which would now be ...

Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century ... On the other hand, female slaves were common and filled a huge variety of roles, from ladies’ maids to farm workers ...

The document details a case of forgery, tax evasion, fraudulent sale, and manumission of slaves in the Roman provinces of Judea and Arabia, present-day Israel and Jordan. Human nature remains the ...