Slavery

Question 1

Twelve tables

Answer 1

Earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law

Question 2

Law on Nexum

Answer 2

Nearly anyone could fall into debt bondage. They would be a slave until they paid off their debt. Debt bondage existed, especially in the early republic due to increase control of ager publicus

Question 3

Lex Poetilia

Answer 3

326 BC, abolished contracted form of nexum.

Question 4

Dependent on slaves?

Answer 4

Rome becomes a society dependent on slaves. Only non-Romans could become slaves.

Question 5

Appian Civil Wars, 1.7-

Answer 5

Romans subdued the Italian peoples, seized their land and colonised. The rich cultivated these newly colonised landsand used slave-labour

Question 6

Slaves gained?

Answer 6

Third Samnite War - 13,000 per annum
First Punic War - 107,000-133,000
Second Punic War - 172,000-186,000
153,000 in other wars

Question 7

Slave mode of production

Answer 7

land, mixed production range (grain, wine, olives), industrial production (textiles, pots), villa building, slave labour force, slave management

Question 8

Manumission

Answer 8

Routes to freedom - Ex testamento, inter vivos
Freedmen had an obligation to their master. They could not run for office, or become senators. But, they could become citizens and their children would be citizens