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| Titre : | Roman Slave Law |
| Auteurs : | Alan Watson, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Baltimore; London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8018-3439-4 |
| Format : | xxii + 157 p. / Index |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | NZ (Histoire de l'Antiquité: Grèce & Rome) |
| Résumé : |
Legal sources provide the most coherent and revealing—yet perhaps the most underutilized—body of evidence about slavery in antiquity. In Roman Slave Law the eminent legal historian Alan Watson sets out the main elements of ancient Roman law as they apply to the institution of slavery and illuminates the ideology behind them.
Historians estimate that slaves made up as much as 40 percent of the total population of Italy by the end of the first century b.c. Watson demonstrates how the law was used to furnish a mechanism allowing masters to exploit their slaves to the fullest while restraining the slaves’ desires to retaliate. Incorporating extensive translations from primary legal sources, he elucidates an elaborate body of law and places it within the larger framework of Roman society. He examines all aspects of Roman slave law, including the rules governing enslavement; punishment; manumission and the granting of citizenship; the relationships among freed slaves, their former masters, and the state; and the treatment of slaves as both human beings and objects. “[Watson’s] study of Roman slave law is implicitly comparative at every point, and importantly so. Each issue explored in this work reveals a significant aspect of the law of slavery wherever it has been found, and the Roman system of 'colorblind oppression’ offers an invaluable reference point—a racially neutral slavery system—against which the devastating oppression born of the colorconsciousness of America’s fundamentally racist breed of slavery may be evaluated and better understood. This work places the Roman law of slavery well within the reach of all who endeavor to analyze and understand slavery as a human phenomenon ” (A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the foreword) |
| Note de contenu : |
- Foreword
- Preface - Abbreviations - Introduction - 1. Enslavement - 2. Manumission and Citizenship - 3. Freedmen, Patrons, and the State - 4. The Slave as Thing - 5. The Slave as Man: Noncommercial Relations - 6. The Slave as Man: Slaves’ Contracts and the Peculium - 7. The Master’s Acquisitions through Slaves - 8. Punishment of the Slave - 9. Senatus consultum Silanianum - Notes - Chronology - Glossary - Index |
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