Slaves (Athens)
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- Slaves
- ROUTES INTO SLAVERY
- Born into it: your parent(s) were slaves.
- Exposed at birth and brought up as a slave.
- Captives of war, soldiers and citizens.
- Captured whilst travelling.
- THE SLAVE TRADE
- Sold in the agora.
- Price would vary depending on age, talent, education and gender. Average was 160 drachma.
- Many were from Thrace.
- TYPES OF SLAVE
- DOMESTIC SLAVES
- Lived in the oikos, treated as extended family.
- Washing, coking cleaning, shopping
- Could be wet-nurses or a paidogogos.
- WAGE EARNING SLAVES
- Unskilled slaves would work in mines, on farms or at the docks.
- Belonged to wealthier families who wanted profit.
- Pottery, shoe making, building, boat-making.
- Attractive females and young males hired out as prostitutes or dancers.
- PUBLIC SLAVES
- Owned by the state, used for Athens.
- Scythian Archers: a slave police force.
- Public executioner, street-sweepers, mint workers.
- DOMESTIC SLAVES
- TREATMENT
- They could neither vote nor marry.
- Adressed as 'pais', child.
- They were a possession, used as their owners wished.
- Agriculture and the mines were the worst places to work.
- Domestic slaves were formally welcomed into the oikos.
- You could not hit another man's slave.
- They could take sanctuary in temples, the master would either have to sell the slave or swear an oath.
- You could buy your freedom and live as a metic, but this was very rare.
- ROUTES INTO SLAVERY
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