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#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

5004.867 - 5029.179 Gregory Aldrete

So that's like shovels, you know, picks, things like this, wagons. You have semi-articulate tools, which are animals, and you have articulate tools, which are human beings, slaves. And for him, these are all just categories of tools. It's so intensely dehumanizing to view people in that way. So Roman slavery is odd in that it doesn't have this racial component.

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