Greek and Roman slavery

Table of weights, measures and currency.

Map of the Ancient Mediterranean world.

Map of Southern Italy and Greece.

Introductory outline.

'All human beings are either free or slave': the slave as property.

Debt-bondage and serfdom.

Manumission.

Moral inferiors.

Status symbol or economic investment?

Sources of slaves.

Domestic slaves and rural slaves.

Slaves owned by the state.

The treatment of slaves: cruelty, exploitation and protection.

Resistance.

Rebellion.

The true freedom of the spirit: Stoics and Christians.