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Roman Slaves

  The Roman Republic and Roman Empire both relied greatly on slaves in their lives. A roman slave was called a servus, the master was called a dominus, and the mistress was called a domina. The Romans viewed slaves as foreign, untrustworthy, lazy, and some what ugly.   Most slaves worked outside the household in farms, workshops, and mines. It is estimated that in Italy, at the roman republic, height, there was one slave for every three free people, or about 2 million slaves. Outside Italy, the number of slaves in unknown, but it is much lower. In our present day society, we have maids and butlers. They are sort of like slaves but not really. Maids and butlers get paid for helping us and they dont work against their own will. Also mainly people who are wealthy hire maids and butlers.