Greek and Roman slavery / 
Thomas Wiedemann 
 - 284 pages :  maps ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801825156 9780801825156 0801825148 9780801825149 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery--History--Greece--Sources<br/>Slavery--History--Rome--Sources<br/>Esclavitud en Roma--Historia--Fuentes
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Sources.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT863  / .G73 1981 HT863  / .G74 1981 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306/.3