Nick Pell

City slaves and household slaves had better lives. These are the ones who could buy their freedom. And after they bought their freedom or were freed through manumission, which is the fancy SAT word for your master freeing you, you were kind of like part of the extended family. Like you didn't usually leave the manor or whatever. You kept living with them.

I love you throwing in your little Groucho Marx jokes while we talk about slavery.

I love you throwing in your little Groucho Marx jokes while we talk about slavery.

I love you throwing in your little Groucho Marx jokes while we talk about slavery.

Yeah. So what we need to point out, there's no way that being owned by another human being can be considered, quote unquote, not that bad. Masters could do literally anything they wanted to their slaves, and they frequently did. With that said, at a certain point in Roman history, there are some improvements in the lives of slaves, period. Not, oh, I got lucky and this guy's a nice guy.

Yeah. So what we need to point out, there's no way that being owned by another human being can be considered, quote unquote, not that bad. Masters could do literally anything they wanted to their slaves, and they frequently did. With that said, at a certain point in Roman history, there are some improvements in the lives of slaves, period. Not, oh, I got lucky and this guy's a nice guy.

Yeah. So what we need to point out, there's no way that being owned by another human being can be considered, quote unquote, not that bad. Masters could do literally anything they wanted to their slaves, and they frequently did. With that said, at a certain point in Roman history, there are some improvements in the lives of slaves, period. Not, oh, I got lucky and this guy's a nice guy.

It's not as horrific as working in a mercury mine.

It's not as horrific as working in a mercury mine.

It's not as horrific as working in a mercury mine.

in general slaves could eventually sue their masters for poor treatment and the masters were punished by losing their property i probably should say that if i refer to somebody as somebody else's property in here i'm doing that for ease of communication i just don't accept that a human being could be another person's property so bear with me yeah i think we're on the same page here

in general slaves could eventually sue their masters for poor treatment and the masters were punished by losing their property i probably should say that if i refer to somebody as somebody else's property in here i'm doing that for ease of communication i just don't accept that a human being could be another person's property so bear with me yeah i think we're on the same page here

in general slaves could eventually sue their masters for poor treatment and the masters were punished by losing their property i probably should say that if i refer to somebody as somebody else's property in here i'm doing that for ease of communication i just don't accept that a human being could be another person's property so bear with me yeah i think we're on the same page here

you would lose your slave to another slave master. So it's not like you got freed. You just got transferred.

you would lose your slave to another slave master. So it's not like you got freed. You just got transferred.

you would lose your slave to another slave master. So it's not like you got freed. You just got transferred.

So the thing is, like I said before, slavery is the default method for human labor organizations throughout history. I use Rome as an example because you spent all weekend watching Spartacus, apparently. People have seen HBO's Rome. People have seen Gladiator. So there's a pretty decent...

So the thing is, like I said before, slavery is the default method for human labor organizations throughout history. I use Rome as an example because you spent all weekend watching Spartacus, apparently. People have seen HBO's Rome. People have seen Gladiator. So there's a pretty decent...

So the thing is, like I said before, slavery is the default method for human labor organizations throughout history. I use Rome as an example because you spent all weekend watching Spartacus, apparently. People have seen HBO's Rome. People have seen Gladiator. So there's a pretty decent...

awareness of roman history through popular culture even if it's not super accurate at least we have some kind of frames references to share in common the greeks were very similar but the spartans the spartans those are the guys from the movie 300 with the amazing abs right for those of us who get our history exclusively from hollywood and now this podcast