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Quantifying the Sources of Slaves in the Early Roman Empire
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This article showed that natural reproduction made a greater contribution to the Roman slave supply than child exposure, warfare, and the slave trade taken together and was in all probability several times as important as any other single source.Abstract:
The relative importance of different sources of slaves in the Roman Empire during the Principate cannot be gauged from ancient texts. However, simple demographic models show that, for purely statistical reasons, natural reproduction made a greater contribution to the Roman slave supply than child exposure, warfare, and the slave trade taken together and was in all probability several times as important as any other single source. The most plausible projections also suggest that on average the incidence of manumission was rather low. By implication, overall fertility of ex-slaves in general and of freedwomen in particular would be low as well, which must have reduced their chances of acquiring legal privileges that accrued from sexual reproduction.read more
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The Long-term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades.
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Isotopic evidence for age-related immigration to imperial Rome.
Tracy L. Prowse,Henry P. Schwarcz,Peter Garnsey,Martin Knyf,Roberto Macchiarelli,Luca Bondioli +5 more
TL;DR: This study demonstrates that migration was not limited to predominantly single adult males, as suggested by historical sources, but rather a complex phenomenon involving families, consistent with historical data.
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The early Roman Empire: consumption
TL;DR: The Roman National Income was indeed larger than that of any pre-industrial European state as mentioned in this paper, and the standard of living of the masses exceeds bare subsistence levels in the Roman Empire.
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Slavery in Early Christianity
TL;DR: In this paper, Glancy investigates the early Christian texts to analyze their impact on the early church and explains what the normal dynamics between slave and slaveholder were like, taking into consideration that slavery was an established fact of life.
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The Cambridge world history of slavery
Keith Bradley,Paul Cartledge,David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Seymour Drescher,David Richardson +5 more
TL;DR: Eltis and Eltis as discussed by the authors discuss dependence, servility and coerced labor in time and space, and discuss the role of women in the early modern era of slavery in Africa and Asia.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade (review)
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