A Roman Slave Market

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A Roman Slave Market

When anyone gets ownership of a human being so as to have the right to use the individual as he chooses, then that man is in an approved manner referred to as a slave. This statement presents a provocative glimpse into the world of Roman slave sale and the process of enslavement in the late third and early centuries. This case in point, put forward central questions of logistics, for example, where was the slave market at Rome, what did the market building look like, and what did the market process look like. Even more, the basic questions gaze at the slaves and how human beings familiarized themselves within a system that defined them as ‘human property’. In the strict meaning of slave origin in Rome, it is prudent to say that it is no different from that in any other place. Slaves could be inherited or presented as gifts. In order for the slave society to endure, legal definitions had to become social realities. Discussed herein are the views of people towards slave and slave trade.

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Free persons entered slavery through sale, an action that gave concrete expression of their definition as fungible chattel. Research on the Roman slave trade has identified places of slave sale, the self-representation of slave traders and their low, dishonored status within their communities, the architectural configuration of buildings identified with sale, the probable size of the slave population, or at least the recorded numbers of those enslaved (Phillips 70). The architectural configuration of buildings, however, cannot tell what the interaction of slave and buyer looked like, or how the audience at a slave sale reacted to the human merchandise, or how the slaves responded to his or her purchase or enslavement, or when and in what circumstances a free person began to acquiesce in his or her enslavement. Understanding the experience of the slave sale requires exploring not only what the slave society did to the slave but to what extent or conditions were the slaves sold.

Institutionally, a consideration of slave sales informs about the supply of slaves: They could also be victims of privacy, sold into slavery, or abandoned children found on q street corner, rescued and raised as slaves. Some were enslaved in punishment for certain crimes, others for debts they were unable to repay.  The process of sale itself turned human beings into human property.  Ultimately, the slave sale stage is central to the institution of chattel slavery: the slave is fungible, that is, exchangeable, replaceable, and suitable like cash. Marcus or of Lucius slaves were known as Marcipor and Lucipor (houseboy). They were sometimes born and raised in their masters’ households. But the enormous numbers of slave.............