Slavery in Greece Rome and Africa
The issue of slavery has been debated since its early inception. In recent times, there has been considerable debate as to the definition of slavery. Western scholars have attempted to justify slavery of the New World by comparing it to the slavery that existed in Biblical times as well as Greco-Roman and African slavery. Some argue that there can be no international definition of slavery. Others try to define by a few words that apply to every instance of slavery. The only true way to define slavery is according to each society in which it was based.Webster's dictionary defines slavery submission to a dominating influence or the state of a person who is a chattel of another. Though Webster's gives this very general definition, there are many other meanings that may come to a person's mind depending on the region of the world that one is speaking of. In Rome, there were different forms of slavery and slavery was not based on any particular thing such as color. Where did these slaves come from? It has been said that "slaves are either born or made." During the Republican period one of the principal sources of slaves had been prisoners of war. There was significant number of Jewish slaves acquired as a result of the crushi
Kpytoff, Igor and Miers, Suzanne, "African Slavery as an A few other methods of enslavement should also be mentioned. The first was self-sale. Hermeros, for example, rather than remain a tribute-paying provincial and hoping subsequently to become a Roman citizen, seems to have sold himself into slavery. A second method was for debt. Here a debtor who was unable to pay could be "given up" (addictus) to his creditor. A third method was penal enslavement, slavery arising from conviction in law. Punishment for grave crimes could entail the removal of personal rights. The abandonment of infants was widespread over much of the Roman world, and, no doubt, occurred even more frequently whenever circumstances became especially difficult. The custom was not made illegal until AD 374. Abandoned children usually either died or were made slaves. The owners themselves sometimes found the infants, either by accident or design. At other times they received them from finders who knew of their need. But there are also signs in the papyri of the availability of infants on request. Individuals who were part of the slave trade either collected abandoned babies for later sale themselves or bought them from others who found them. Pauline Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
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