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Slaves and Slavery

Ancient slaves and slavery. A person could become a slave in various ways. He could be born into slavery, exposed as an infant, sold into slavery or taken as a war prize.
Documents on Greek Slavery, c. 750 - 330 BCE
Hesiod: Works and Days, c. 750 B.C., Strabo: Geographia, (written c. A.D. 20), about 550 B.C., Antiphon: On the Choreutes, c. 430 B.C., Demosthenes: Against Timocrates. c. 350 B.C., and Aristotle: The Politics, On Slavery, c. 330 B.C.
Punic Faith and Slavery
Article by Roy Decker on Carthaginian economy. An unsavory reputation for capturing and enslaving coupled with perceived dishonesty may not have been deserved, according to Herodotus' informant.

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