Slave-owning slaves
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slave-owning-slaves-185-17665814
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Slave-owning slaves
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In some human societies there were slaves who owned slaves. Although details varied, there were two broad cases: peculium slavery, and elite political slavery. A peculium was a slave's informal property, and is best known from ancient Rome. In strict law, slaves could own nothing. Yet in everyday Roman life a large volume of business was transacted by slaves: it suited their owners, who made money from it. Thus an astute slave could save and might grow quite rich, buying one or more slaves of hi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-owning_slaves
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2024-08-24T12:04:04Z
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2024-09-07T21:29:53Z
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