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SLAVES - GREECE ( MOSTLY ATHENS), Doulos - general, oikétēs - on of…
SLAVES - GREECE ( MOSTLY ATHENS)
TYPES
CHATTEL
never free unless granted freedom
Considered property
mutilation of hermai ( statues) in 415 BCE - property of the guilty sold --> included slaves
DEBT BONDAGE
could become free
DEBT SLAVERY
in theory could be free but in reality didn't
All TYPES were still SLAVES with same LEGAL STATUS
TREATMENT
PUNISHMENTS
to motivate them to work
WORK
land work
Textile work
Manufacturing
Citizen working abhorrent and humiliating idea
Building work
Acropolis buildings built by slaves/citizens and metics
Erechtheum building accounts - slave owners paid
FOOD/CLOTHING
their payment
Source - Aristotle - Economics
FREEDOM AS INCENTIVE
TERMS
DEHUMANISED/ HUMILIATED
Andropogon - man footed creature
soma - body
pais - child
AQUISITION
CONQUEST - prisoners
PURCHASE
RAIDING - Kidnap
DEBT
Acquisition differed in different cities
Athens - bought, Sparta- conquest
SLAVE TRADE
Distasteful profession
STATUS /IDENTITY
NO RIGHTS - EXCEPT OUTRAGE
(vote, ability to own property/land, master legally responsible for slaves actions
LAW OF OUTRAGE
(
acts of wanton violence, insult, or humiliation)
Anyone outraging even a slave is punished
Designed to underline how unacceptable the crime of outrage was
Source - Aeschines, Against Timarchus
Not easy to tell visually who was slave/foreigner/ free man
LEGAL STATUS - SLAVE,
Established by witness statement of
buyer
seller
other who knows if they are slave
Legal punishments if witness lies
If slave because of debt bondage - tried as real status 'free man' ,
ATTITUDE TO SLAVERY
Accepted
6th BCE move
society with slaves --> slave society
ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT
SPARTA - HELOTS
OWNERSHIP
- State /Private - Debated
Ephorus 4th BCE (Private v Strabo 1st BCE (State)
HELOTS were SLAVES - misunderstanding arose because spartans could use another citizens property if they found it and needed it -
Xenophon, Spartan Constitution
same with Helots
Could be killed at night by any citizen
Young Spartans rite of passage to kill a helot ?
Plutarch quoting Aristotle
ABUSED - made drunk and paraded as bad example to citizens
Could not leave Sparta
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
Sparta Needed for survival
Athens - commercial/ easier life, Athens had other economic options - employ workers, invest in silve mines etc *
Doulos - general
oikétēs - on of the houshold