(urth) Oannes

Jeff Wilson jwilson at clueland.com
Wed Mar 21 19:56:39 PDT 2012


On 3/21/2012 12:52 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>> Weren't they still subject to arbitrary use and abuse, and sale to other
>> owners without consent?
>
> The former, no. Roman slaves had well defined rights.

The rights to keep their religion didn't seem to prevent them from being 
prostituted or used in blood sports or worked to death in mines, though. 
Not much of chance to pick up enough tips to buy your freedom in the 
mines, either.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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