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Ancient slaves who made it big

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Dr Cristian Ispir
Sep 19, 2026
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Confronting Slavery in the Classical World | Emory | Michael C. Carlos  Museum

We know quite a lot about ancient slavery, what it meant to be a slave, roughly how large the slave population of Greece and Rome was and how it evolved, how one could come into slavery and out of it.

We can’t possibly know what it was like to be a slave, unless one has been a slave.

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