In ancient Rome, the slave trade was extremely common, in order to maintain social productivity, the Romans were unscrupulous in capturing slaves, trying everything to convert the population of different countries around them into slaves for their own use, and did not hesitate to invent a set of strange slave identification methods, pouting and looking at the teeth are pediatrics, targeting female slaves, but also invented an extremely perverted identification method, which makes people sound chilling!
In ancient Chinese society, slaves still have a way to live, although the power of life and death is in the hands of the slave owner, but the villains have a good hand, and they can also form a family normally, although the children and grandchildren still cannot escape the fate of being slaves for generations, but it can be regarded as leaving incense for the family to open branches and leaves. Moreover, China has been tolerant and kind since ancient times, and although most slave owners have desperately squeezed the surplus value of slaves, they also understand some inexhaustible sustainable development concepts, and they are still relatively charitable to slaves.
In contrast, slavery in Rome was very different. The slaves of ancient Rome are definitely a model of living in dire straits, a day as a slave will never come out, from the day they enter the slave owner's house, life and death are not controlled by themselves, from morning to night to endless labor, pay? Being able to give a bite to eat is either starvation to death, or the greatest gift of slave owners to slaves. Freely? To be free, you must die!
There is a Roman proverb: "As many slaves there are, there are as many enemies". This sentence is undoubtedly the most appropriate portrayal of slavery, after all, in the eyes of the Romans, the low position of slaves is not as high as the livestock at home, and even Roman law provides a legal basis for the legality of slavery, in Roman law, slaves are not even human beings, once bought by slave owners, ownership belongs to their masters. So they can be taken by their own masters and exchanged with others, just like a commodity.
With such discrimination and oppression, it is no wonder that slave revolts in ancient Rome rose one after another, and although the strength of slave owners can be judged by the number of slaves owned, the large number of slave groups will undoubtedly increase many factors of instability.
According to records, after Rome entered the "republican era", the number of foreign slaves multiplied with the help of foreign invasion and expansion. By the 1st century BC, the city of Rome, with a population of 1.5 million, had more than 900,000 slaves.
All of this reflects the prevalence of slavery in Roman society. Due to the large number of men and women in Rome at that time, and the serious shortage of female citizens, female slaves became a scarce resource in society, not only to meet the needs of the master, but also to meet the special needs of the master.
In the plantations of ancient Rome, there were often extremely strange pictures, a large group of slaves working on the land, but did not make a single sound, strange people felt unreal. It's not that they don't want to say it, but Roman slaves always have to be bound by very harsh rules, and if they don't get permission, they can't even move their lips, let alone speak loudly, otherwise they will be regarded as disrespectful to their masters, and if they encounter slave owners who want to kill chickens and monkeys, their lives will be saved. If there is a coughing sound or hiccup, it affects the mood of the owner, and it will be severely whipped.
Since slaves can be bought and sold as commodities, and Rome has gradually formed a standardized process for selecting slaves, how did slave owners choose slaves in order to prevent buying bad slaves?
Male slaves are very easy to choose, physically strong and able to work, young and energetic, but the selection of female slaves really takes a lot of effort, because female slaves have an additional sexual role than male slaves.
The slave trading market almost supported the GDP of the entire Rome, and the most fashionable pastime of people was to buy and sell people in the slave market, buying slaves in Rome was like selecting livestock in the market, pinching hands and beating chests, breaking mouths and teeth, almost everything that can happen in the livestock market can be played out here indiscriminately, the most terrible thing is that everyone is accustomed to the slave trade, even the slaves themselves, in addition to lamenting the pitiful fate, did not think that there was anything wrong.
As the Roman Empire expanded outward, more and more prisoners of war joined the ranks of slaves, and the Romans also became more and more diverse under the influence of the large-scale slave trade. In the slave trade of the late Roman Empire, there was an even more unacceptable method of selecting female slaves - licking sweat. Buyers will lick the sweat on the slave girls they fancy with their tongues, and distinguish and judge whether there are hidden diseases on them by taste and smell.
After all, many people come to buy these slaves to satisfy their sexual desires, and although the Spring Festival is worth thousands of dollars, it is still important to have a small life, and these female slaves of unknown origin should naturally be checked more. And this kind of inspection action is indeed difficult for female slaves to accept. After all, there are countless people who come to buy every day, and there are all kinds of people, and they don't know how many times they have to go through such torture every day.
After you buy it back, female slaves are about to start another period of inhuman life, gender will become the source of their suffering, not only to engage in the same heavy physical labor as male slaves, but also to endure the frivolity and indecency of the slave owner, once resisted, what awaits them will be merciless scolding, even if they are beaten to death, it will be considered a rebellion against the master, a dark corner that even the sun of the law cannot reach.
Do you find it difficult to accept the method of selection when trading slave girls in ancient Rome? What do you think of what the slaves suffered?