From the System to the Person: becoming a slave in a 'non-slaving zone'
This short article offers a commentary on Joly & Knust’s paper Ancient Slavery in Mediterranean Perspective: A Proposal of a Global Approach’. I applaud the authors’ plea for a diachronic, holistic approach to slavery in the ancient Mediterranean, but suggest that we would be unwise to dispe...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repositorio: | Esboços (Online) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/103916 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/103916 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Finley Roman slavery Natural reproduction Escravidão romana Reprodução natural |
| Sumario: | This short article offers a commentary on Joly & Knust’s paper Ancient Slavery in Mediterranean Perspective: A Proposal of a Global Approach’. I applaud the authors’ plea for a diachronic, holistic approach to slavery in the ancient Mediterranean, but suggest that we would be unwise to dispense entirely with Moses Finley’s notion of genuine ‘slave societies’. I argue the case for a greater focus, in all work on Roman slavery, on ‘natural reproduction’; that is, on the extent to which the slave ‘supply’ was replenished using children born to enslaved woman. I employ a monument from Roman Britain-the tombstone of Regina-to explore the nature of the ‘internal’ slave supply, and the lived experience of it. |
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