EAN: 9783515131407

SLAVES OF THE PEOPLE - FRANCO LUCIANI KARTONIER...

Slavery played a crucial economic and social role in the Roman history. Unfree individuals were
employed to perform a wide range of duties in both the domestic environment and the public
sphere. Along with the large population of private slaves who were owned by individual masters
and the smaller but influential group of Imperial slaves who were property of the emperors 
there was another category of slaves: the so-called 'public slaves' (servi publici). They were
unfree individuals  owned by a community rather than a single master. Based on primary evidence
Franco Luciani aims to provide a comprehensive study of public slavery in the Roman world. By
focusing on the use of public slaves in both Rome and in other cities of the Western Empire  as
well as on the development of public slavery from the Middle Republic to Late Antiquity 
Luciani attempts to define public slavery and to explore the historical significance of public
slavery across time. He also analyses the role played by public slaves in the life of the
community they belonged to. Specific attention is then drawn to manumission of public slaves
and the legal status of freed public slaves. Finally  Luciani addresses the issue of the
position of public slaves in Roman society.

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