This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...institution, about which there was much legislation and a large number of laws, having reference to all the details of the system. Adams, in his " Roman Antiquities," says, " Men became slaves among the Romans by being taken in war, by sale, by way of punishment, or by being born in a state of servitude.... ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...institution, about which there was much legislation and a large number of laws, having reference to all the details of the system. Adams, in his " Roman Antiquities," says, " Men became slaves among the Romans by being taken in war, by sale, by way of punishment, or by being born in a state of servitude.... There was a continual market for slaves at Rome. Those who dealt in that trade brought them thither from various countries. The seller was bound to promise for the soundness of his slaves and not to conceal their faults. Those brought from beyond seas have their feet whitened with chalk, and their ears bored.... Criminals were often reduced to slavery, by way of punishment," Nothing is said in this extract, or elsewhere, of colored slaves. If those who were brought from beyond seas had been the jet-black people of Africa, they would not need to be distinguished by a chalk mark that they might be known. In all this immense system of slavery among the Romans, lasting for centuries, we hear nothing about negro slaves. Undoubtedly there were black slaves there occasionally. In this great traffic, reaching out on every side, doubtless some black people would be brought in; but the circumstance was too slight and unimportant to require any special notice. CHAPTER VII. WHEN DID NEGRO SLAVERY BEGIN? FTER the magnetic needle had begun to be used for purposes of navigation, the nations of Europe entered with zeal into the work of maritime discovery. In this great enterprise, Spain and Portugal were foremost. According to the savage and tyrannical usage of those times, when any new continent or island was discovered, the nation through, whose agency the discovery was made took possession without the slightest regard to the rights of...
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