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**Life as a Roman Slave**  home aqueducts  roads  colosseum  slaves soldiers Augustus Caesar  Life of a Roman Slave was very important in ancient times. There were about two million slaves in Italy. A roman slave was called a “servus.” A roman slave worked in the home, the field, and the city. Household slaves worked as maids, cooks, and valets. If there were highly educated slaves, they were often served as tutors to their master’s children. In ancient Rome all work was done by the slaves. The slaves cooked, cleaned, did the laundry, cared for his/her owner& family, ran messages, weeded the garden, sometimes read, sang, or played music to entertain the owner and guest. The slaves tended crops, gathered the harvest, picked olives, picked grapes, milked the cows & goats, cared for cart horses & oxen, sheared the sheep, and spun wool. Slaves were also not free to leave. The slaves had very few rights, and could be bought, sold, or even killed by their owners. Sometimes the slaves might not get to see sunlight for maybe months at a time. Today in modern times we have social classes like they had in ancient Rome. But we do not have slaves in the United States. However, other countries do carry slaves.