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Archaeologists unearth 'most shocking example of Roman slavery' at Pompeii
- bell-cot 3y agoUm, yes, citizens of $AncientState often treated their slave horribly? > ...in what has been described as the most shocking example of slavery in the ancient Roman city... [emphasis mine] In other words, no one who actually knows boo about history is actually shocked. But "shock" makes for a nice, clicky headline. (For the $AncientState == 'Rome' case, the prevalence & scale of horrible mistreatment was such that they'd had to fight 3 serious wars in the two centuries before Pompeii was buried, to put down massive slave uprisings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servile_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servile_Wars )