Slaves

Question 1

3 groups of slaves

Answer 1

• agricultual/industrial
• Public
• Domestic

Question 2

Argicultutral/industrial slaves

Answer 2

• Worked in factories, mines, rowers, galley
  • dangerous
• stronger slaves
• bad working conditions and low living expectancy

Question 3

Public slaves

Answer 3

• Owned by state
• Maintained buildings, temples, roads
• Educated slaves could serve as sribes in Roman civil service

Question 4

Domestic slaves

Answer 4

• lived in householf
• Could be specialised (chef/tutor) or general
• Females usually performed domestic tasks
• Males generally used for accounts and accompanying in the paterfamilias
  • to the baths

Question 5

Poor families slaves

Answer 5

• 1 or 2
• help in house or buissness

Question 6

Rich families slaves

Answer 6

• 5 to 1000+
• work in large house
• massive buisness
• massive farms

Question 7

Rights of slaves

Answer 7

• Were classified as property
  • master had total control
• no legal or political rights
• cant marry
• cant own property
• if slave was witness is court case evidence only taken if slave was tortured
• if conspiracy to kill master all slaves put to death

Question 8

Selling of slaves

Answer 8

• Some were criminals and condemed to slavery
  • miners, gladiators
• Newly captured slaves were taken to a market
• POW were often taken as slaves
• At market enslaved people were put on platforms with placards displaying their qualities

Question 9

Treatment of slaves

Answer 9

• Classed as property
  • master had total control
• Many were branded to stop them from running away
  • if ran away or killed –> branded
• physcial and sexual abuse
• quality depended on master character