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Originally Posted by Devo
Are you serious? Yeah I guess that's why hundreds of innocents were crucified as a message to Sparticus and the other slaves who fled.
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The Romans had no real concept of "innocents." Either you were a citizen, or subservient. The value of a slave was subjective, so yeah, it's entirely possible (and did in fact happen) that slaves were respected in a few Roman communities. Those crucified as a warning to Spartacus would've been slaves of no particular value whatsoever.
Slaves could be considered a part of a family, or they could just be treated like shit, or worked half to death in the mines. Which is essentially not that different from how slaves were treated in the 19th century South.
They hardly had the "basic rights" of citizens. They couldn't vote after all. It was bad enough with the Plebes. ;(
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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