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weapons/armor emporer home colosseum road aquaducts  **Slaves** Most of the slaves that Rome had were captured in war and brought back to be sold. Also a law in Rome stated that a kid's dad could sell you to work as a slave. This would usually happen if the dad was low on money. Mostly the wealthy Romans would own slaves. And once you were a slave you were one for life. The only way to be free was to be given freedom from your master. Or the other way was to gather up the same amount of money that your master paid for you. This task was nearly impossible for slaves. If a slave got married and has kids, the kids will automatically become slaves. And sometimes the slaves would kill their kids so they wouldn’t have to live such a terrible life. Nobody owned as many slaves as Rome. Although no one is sure how many slaves they even had. A wealthy person in Rome would usually own up to as many as 500 slaves. The emperor on the other hand, would usually have __more__ than 20,000 slaves. About 25% of Roman people were slaves. A Roman slave's work would start at daybreak. If it was cold out, the master expected the slave to start a fire. And when the master woke up the slave was to help his/her master get dressed. Then they would do daily things such as walking kids to school, washing clothes, cooking meals and things like that. After you read this page I hope it helps you get used to your new slave life. But hopefully you aren’t a slave at all.