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Female slaves usually worked as servants or as maids to the Mistress. Men slaves worked on a farm or in the Roman mines. Skilled or educated slaves worked skilled jobs such as teaching or business. The type of work generally depended on what type of education and experience the slave had.

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Slaves were usually prisoners of war, bought outside of Rome or sailors captured and sold by pirates. Some Roman citizens even sold their kids into slavery to raise money for their family.

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-An Upper class Roman family had dozens of slaves
-A middle-class family would have had one to three slaves
-A working class person might have had one slave

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Roman slaves could have property but it belonged to their master. They were allowed to use the land as if it was their own. Skilled or educated slaves were allowed to earn their own money and could save it to buy their freedom later on.

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Slaves were mostly Greek because there were so many wars between Rome and Greece. They were not all prisoners of war romans could be enslaved or volunteer to be a slave.

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Slaves could be get there freedom by:
-Gifted freedom for good deeds
-Granted freedom with master’s death,
-Earned freedom after a certain amount of time or a certain amount of money earned

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Slaves worked:
-In private households
-In mines and factories
-On farms
-For the government on projects such as building roads, aqueducts and buildings.

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The Horrible Life of an Average Roman Empire Slave

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At one point in Roman history, freed slaves had couldn't marry citizens. In 18 BC freed slaves were aloud to marry outside there class but still couldn't marry senators

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Slave would work all day and then go sleep. They slept on a pile of straw with a blanket on top and they slept in the kitchen, hallway, or  attic