As we all know, in ancient times, slaves were a peculiar class, they were not only economically dependent on the slave owners, even personal freedom belonged to them, it can be said that the slave owners are everything to the slaves, the slave owners let the slaves live, he will live, let him die, he will die.
In the era of china's feudal society, there are also a large number of servants and maidens, if they can be favored by the old lady in some aspects, then their life will be a little better, at least eat and wear without worry, and some slightly posture of the maid may also be able to become the concubine of the old master or the young master, although it is only a concubine, but compared to the young mane, it is much better.
But in the ancient Roman era, the life of the slave was not so lucky, the slave at that time was not much more expensive than the livestock, even cheaper than the livestock, for the rich, buying a slave is equivalent to buying a livestock, but that is only a male slave, the female slave is even cheaper, basically buy 1 male slave money, you can buy 3 female slaves, it can be seen that the status of female slaves in ancient Roman society is very low.
In fact, this is mainly because there were fewer livestock in ancient Rome at that time, and the ancient Romans at that time had to have a large number of livestock in order to reclaim the land, but in that environment at that time, the number of slaves was very large, because the Roman Empire was too strong, basically every victory in the war would plunder back a large number of slaves. So that's why livestock are more expensive than slaves.
And when the slaves were bought, the male slaves would do manual work, the female slaves would be assigned to the slave owners' homes, according to the ancient Roman slave regulations at that time, the slave owners had the right to order the slaves to do anything, and even some of them would become the children's nurses, that is, responsible for feeding the slave owners' children, working in the slave owners' homes was very dangerous, because if something went wrong, it was very likely that they would be killed.
There is also a kind of most miserable female slaves, first of all, the slave owners will select some good-looking female slaves, keep them by their side, in addition to letting them do all kinds of labor at home, but also let them meet the various requirements of the slave owners at any time, if some slaves accidentally get pregnant, it will be even more miserable, the slave owners will not only not be like the ancient Chinese masters, will give them a concubine to do, and even let them continue to work, if they finally give birth to boys, they will be sold directly, and girls will continue to be slaves , very tragic.
After arriving in modern society, looking back at the history of some countries, I found that the people at that time lived so tragically, but fortunately, in this era, most countries have abolished slavery, and now people are more pursuing freedom. What do you think about that? Do you think the ancient Romans at that time were cruel in their treatment of slaves? If you were a slave owner, how would you treat a slave?