"The life of a roman slave was a miserable one."

"The life of a roman slave was a miserable one."

1. Intro

   • The way people became slaves
     • Capture in war
     • Piracy
     • Born into slavery
     • Serious crimes
     • Exposure
     • Vernae

2. Paragraph 1

   • Types of slaves
     • Domestic
       • Cleaners
       • Cooks
     • Industrial slaves
       • Mines
       • Factories
     • Public Slaves
       • Construction projects
         • Roads
         • Public buildings
       • Cleaning public areas
         • Maintenence
   • Other
     • Gladiator
     • Prostitute

3. Paragraph 2

   • How slaves were treated by master
   • The conditions in which they worked in
   • Loss of identity
   • No legal rights
   • Owned by someone
   • General rights and treatments

4. Punishments

   • What would happen if they comimtted a crime
   • Crucifixion for serious
   • Branding
   • Scourging
   • If master mudered
     • Whole household would be tortured

5. Good things

   • If you were good you would be treated better
   • Payment of peculium
   • Chance of freedom
     • Manumission
       • Incentive for slaves to work hard
       • Touched with rod (vindieta)
       • Ended with a slap
       • Once freed
         • Wore pileus
         • Became roman citizen
         • Descendants had rights
         • Became a client of master
     • Use peculium to buy freedom
     • If you had witnessed incriminating evidence
     • Sick
     • Old

6. Conclusion

7. Will Mitchell