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LATIFUNDIA
- huge estates - plantation economy (owned by senators)
- located in Etruria & Campania
- EFFECTS (decreased # of small farms in Italy)
- inefficient production
Slaves
- used on plantations
- origins: Hellas, East, Spain, Africa
- skilled sl. keep former jobs
- some = businessmen & buy freedom
- 'Freedmen' common in late republic**
p.150
Difficulties of Slave life
- brutal treatment
- mine-workers = lowest***
- Threat of violence constant
- runaway & criminal slaves
- Slave Revolts***
For Shelton's book I suggest your doing something
similar for each major BOLD heading (163-185):
Slaves
- 3rd c. wars (# of Foreign slaves increases)
- sources (pow's; rebels; debt slaves; kids sold/exposed; slave's kids)
Enslavement
- War booty - some can ransom selves - 2 minae ea.
Selling Slaves
- aediles oversee slave markets
Buying slaves
- from private person or dealer
- seller guarantees health & no criminal past
Livy & Plutarch - WEB
When we read Livy's stories or Plutarch's biographies on the WEB, it is helpful to read for the main points of the overall narrative: the main players, important themes, the decisive actions and the results of such.
We'll be reading the biographies of the Gracchus brothers and some background on them in Africa. For both, you might focus upon the main events in their public and private lives. There are too many names in the Africa pages and too many details in the Plutarch bio's to get them all straight, so focus upon big events, big people and important trends.