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Greek and Roman Slavery

Book by Thomas Wiedemann; Routledge, 1988

Subjects:

Slavery--Greece--History--Sources, Slavery--Rome--History--Sources

Collections: History, Entire Library

...interpretations of why slavery was so widespread in Greece and Rome and what roles it performed...free market model. Slavery was universal in Greece and Rome, even if its role cannot...the circumstances of Rome, where slavery served precisely as...
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Ancient Rome at Work: An Economic History of Rome from the Origins to the Empire

Book by Paul Louis; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927

Subjects:

Labor--Rome, Rome--Economic Conditions, Slavery--Rome, Working Class--Rome

Collections: History, Entire Library

...I. PRIMITIVE ROME 24...V. SLAVERY 37...earning classes. Slavery was no accident...ideas current in Rome as in Greece and...not all reduced to slavery. Many, retaining limited rights, came to Rome. Not being able to...
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The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity

Book by William L. Westermann; American Philosophical Society, 1955

Subjects:

Slavery--Greece, Slavery--Rome

Collections: History, Entire Library

...xi I. Greek Slavery from Homer to the Persian Wars...Slave Employment and Legal Aspects of Slavery 12...Alexander. The Social Setting of Polis Slavery 22...
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Freedmen in the Early Roman Empire

Book by A. M. Duff; The Clarendon Press, 1928

Subjects:

Freedmen, Slavery--Rome

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Director of the British School at Rome, my supervisor while I was...appearance of Mr. R. H. Barrow Slavery in the Roman Empire , which...slave-market of Republican Rome. Athens could derive few slaves...cities were sometimes sold into slavery; but the cities in question...
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Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World, 140 B.C.-70 B.C

Book by Keith R. Bradley; Indiana University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Rome--History--Servile Wars, 135-71 B.C, Slave Insurrections--Rome

Collections: History, Entire Library

Bradley's study carefully analyses and describes the 3 major slave rebellions and uprisings that occurred during the period 140 B.C. to 70 B.C. His analysis examines the conditions that led the slaves to resist and how they maintained the rebellion.

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World Conference against Racism: New Avenues for Slavery Reparations?

Journal article by Michelle E. Lyons; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 35, 2002

Subjects:

Reparations--Laws, regulations, etc., Slavery--Finance, World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...the WCAR declared slavery to be a crime against humanity, the Rome Statute specifically...torture, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution...169) Although the Rome Statute entered into...2002. (172) The Rome Statute is only authorized...past instances of slavery. (173) However, the...
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The Children of God: Natural Slavery in the Thought of Aquinas and Vitoria

Journal article by Joseph E. Capizzi; Theological Studies, Vol. 63, 2002

Subjects:

Slavery--Religious aspects, Thomas Aquinas, Saint--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...ignorant of history and of his own environment. While, certainly, there are important differences between the slavery of ancient Greece and Rome and medieval Europe, Aquinas would surely have been aware of the atrocious nature of ancient slavery, which...
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Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome

Journal article by Anthony Corbeill; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...master narrative of the time (the fall of Rome and rise of Christianity), scholars have...scholars at least since Aristotle: was slavery essential to the success of ancient Greek...conceive of no practical alternative to slavery" (261). Finally, in his own contribution...
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The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Journal article by John Byron; Theological Studies, Vol. 66, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...those perceptions and the practice of slavery in Western civilization. The theoretical...slave populations of ancient Greece and Rome and suggests that this was probably the...that racism was not a factor in ancient slavery and that moderns often confuse esthetic...
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The Baker, His Tomb, His Wife, and Her Breadbasket: The Monument of Eurysaces in Rome

Journal article by Lauren Hackworth Petersen; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003

Subjects:

Rome (Ancient state), Tombs--Design and construction

Collections: Entire Library

...Outside the Porta Maggiore at Rome there still stands the egregious...that his successful rise from slavery would justify his over-the-top...respective paths into the city of Rome (Figs. 16, 17) . (49) In the...Because the necropolises of Rome were not permitted within the...

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The Second Fall of Rome

Magazine article by Michael Lind; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 24, Winter 2000

Subjects:

Civilization, Classical--Influence, Civilization, Western--Sources, Latin literature--Influence, Rome (Ancient)--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...world, and some are repugnant to modern values. The evil of slavery has been eliminated in most places. Imperialism is archaic in...industrialized world of nation-states. The martial virtues prized in Rome, although perennially relevant to soldiers and police officers...
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Ancient Rome and the Pirates

Magazine article by Philip De Souza; History Today, Vol. 51, July 2001

Subjects:

Mediterranean Sea--Crime, Pirates--Crime, Rome (Ancient)--Crime

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Mediterranean, securing the regions on which Rome depended for her food supply, namely North...instead of being executed or sold into slavery, which were the traditional punishments...criticise Pompey, the most powerful man in Rome since his victory over Mithridates. He...
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: The Psyhic Inheritance

Magazine article by Rex Nettleford; UN Chronicle, Vol. 44, September 2007

Subjects:

Racism--Social aspects, Slave trade--Social aspects, Slavery--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...of the trans-atlantic slave trade and slavery. The process of cross-fertilization of...ancestral pedigree of ancient Greece and Rome, which Western civilization has hijacked...North America. But alas, the legacy of slavery and its fertilizer of a trade in African...
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Gladiator and the Myths of Rome: T.P. Wiseman Looks at the Development of the Myth of Ancient Rome, Derived from the Way Its History Has Been Seen

Magazine article by T.P. Wiseman; History Today, Vol. 55, April 2005

Subjects:

Gladiator (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--History, Rome, Italy--History, Rome, Italy--Myths and legends

Collections: History, Entire Library

...held the bridge alone against an army and saved the city from slavery; Lucius Cincinnatus, summoned from the plough to hold command...city; Decius Mus, father and son, who on two occasions saved Rome from defeat by sacrificing their own lives; Marcus Regulus...
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The Liberator Daniel O'Connell and Anti-Slavery

Magazine article by Christine Kinealy; History Today, Vol. 57, December 2007

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery--History, Civil rights movements--Evaluation, O'Connell, Daniel (Irish statesman)--Political activity, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--History, Statesmen--Political activity

Collections: History, Entire Library

...this union was formalized. Although OConnell never made it to Rome, his heart was taken there for burial and his other remains...causes of his latter years--repeal of the Act of Union and anti-slavery--appeared to be no closer to being achieved than they had been...

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History of Man from the Start Is Blighted by Slavery

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), September 18, 2006

Subjects:

Celebrities, Slavery

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the side. Still in their chains. Get rid of the evidence. But slavery is as old as mans history. Every conquest since the Assyrian...Verdis great opera Nabucco - and the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. Rome depended on slaves captured in every campaign. Remember Spartacus...
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When in Rome. ...Massacre Your Opponents, Pillage, Get a Slave, Shower in Bulls' Blood. These Are All Gory Scenes of Real Roman Life Depicted in the BBC's Stunnning New Series. JULIAN CHAMPKIN Finds out How Faithfully the Empire Has Been Recreated

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 29, 2005

Subjects:

Caesar, Julius, Massacres, Television programs

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was thought cruel. Most of the physical work in Rome was carried out by slaves. For us, slavery is abhorrent, but it was an all-embracing aspect...likely that 70 per cent of the population of Rome were slaves. For the middle classes, having a...
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BARBARIANS AT THE GATE; SATURDAY ESSAY Politicians Love Threats to National Security. They Allow Them to Cloak Naked Ambition in Patriotism. Here a Historical Novelist Draws Chilling Parallels between the Death of Democracy in Rome and Our Loss of Liberty

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 9, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ground of the Tiber delta. That night in Rome - for which Ostia served as the main port...population had been seized and sold into slavery; the carrying-off of all the temple treasures...to the full by the most ambitious man in Rome at that time, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known...
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Sad Slavery of Mortgage Kids

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 9, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Sad Slavery of Mortgage Kids. Byline: patflanagan YOU know that the country has...level for three years, the signs are ominous for the mortgage generation. In Rome last week I watched happy people living in small apartments and driving around...
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A Very British Crusade; the Fascinating Account of the Religious Oddballs Who Fought to End Slavery

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 7, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...book is about how they accomplished that remarkable goal half a century later. Slavery had built the greatest civilisations of the ancient world - Egypt, Greece and Rome. It was considered an inevitable part of the human condition by thinkers as...

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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...continued to expand, a form of agricultural slavery called estate slavery was introduced on a wide scale; in this form agriculture was...practically absolute power over them. The increasing wealth of Rome led to an expansion in domestic slaves, and the servile class...
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Punic Wars

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...encroachment of the Numidian king Masinissa (a Roman ally), Rome declared war and blockaded the city. Carthage never surrendered...it, house by house, and sold the surviving inhabitants into slavery. The city was razed and its site plowed up. Bibliography...
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Debt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ancient nations debt was associated with slavery because the insolvent debtor and his household...to perform compulsory services. In early Rome the insolvent was given into custody of...uprisings of the Roman people; turbulence in Rome afterward was to a large extent occasioned...
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Samnites

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...later Marius in the Social War, they were crushed (82 b.c.) by Sulla before the gates of Rome; most of them were killed. Some survivors were sold into slavery; the rest were Romanized. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Citizen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...subject or servile status (e.g., slaves or serfs; see serf , slavery ). (It should be noted, however, that in Great Britain and some...Empire was at first limited to the residents of the city of Rome and was then extended in a.d. 212 to all free inhabitants of...

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