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Greek and Roman slavery / Thomas Wiedemann

Contributor(s): Wiedemann, Thomas E. JMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981Description: 284 pages : maps ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0801825156; 9780801825156; 0801825148; 9780801825149Subject(s): Slavery -- Greece -- History -- Sources | Slavery -- Rome -- History -- Sources | Esclavitud en Roma -- Historia -- FuentesGenre/Form: History. | Sources.DDC classification: 306/.3 LOC classification: HT863 | .G73 1981HT863 | .G74 1981
Contents:
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
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 39 - Main Room 		H1b WIEDE 22677 Not for loan BOOKS*00000008402

Includes bibliographical references and index

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