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Debt-slavery which interestingly was banned under Ceasar if I'm not mistaking.
by bboygravity 3y ago
Debt-slavery which interestingly was banned under Ceasar if I'm not mistaking.
- Telemakhos 3y agoSolon, long before Caesar was ever born in Rome, abolished debt-slavery in Athens. There's a good book on Athenian banking: Cohen, E. 1992. Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. He goes into interesting evidence for bank money (ledger entries not backed by coins, as opposed to metal currency), fractional reserve lending, and inflation in ancient Athens.
- throw0101b 3y ago> There's a good book on Athenian banking: For a wider net, on the general legal framework(s) of that time, see perhaps Ancient Greek law in the 21st century, Perlman, Paula Jean, editor: * https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477315217/ https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477315217/ It turns out one of the largest banks in Athens was owned/run by some slaves: finance was not a 'respectable' profession—with farming/agriculture being the most 'noble'—so it was left to the lower classes and other riff-raff. Lots of slaves ran businesses, and the question often came up whether any associated debt belong to the business, the slave, or the slave's master (important when slaves were bought and sold).
- qwytw 3y agoIn Rome debt slavery was abolished almost 300 years before Caesar (not sure if it applied only to citizens or to all free people though)