Blatnickslaves

 Aqueducts  Roman roads The Colosseum          Roman Soldier Daily life of a Slave Augustus Caesar Home page **If you have ever wondered what it would be like if you were a slave in Rome? Well this page will give you a pretty good description of what it was like. Slaves had a very rough life, you could say it was all work and no play. As if that wasn't enough they were treated terribly by their owners. ** **The lives of Roman slaves were all very different, did different jobs and lived different kind lives. Many slaves in ancient Rome  were treated with disrespect and worked till they couldn't move . Others were treated well, with respect, and few even freed by their kind masters. **    **Slaves had no rights, therefor they had to earn their freedom and rights . **  Slaves worked on farms, in mines, and in the homes of many cruel rulers. Many slaves were prisoners of war their owners believed they deserved no respect and that they should die of exhaustion. ** Although many slave masters were mean and cruel some were kind and thoughtful, if in those hands some were able to marry and raise families. ** **Slaves were unable to marry without the owners agreement or permission.** ** Roman slaves where somewhat ugly, foreign, lazy, and untrustworthy, no citizen/native of Rome could be a slave ** . **<span style="color: rgb(255, 31, 227);">Romans aslo made slaves make books for boys in school and copy poems <span style="color: rgb(4, 198, 241);">. They lived at the back of their masters house which was near the cattle, chickens, and pigs. <span style="color: rgb(232, 2, 194);"> It relates to todays society because there are still slaves in other contries with the same conditions of hard work and no pay. **
 * <span style="color: rgb(10, 181, 255);">Daily life in Rome as a slav ****<span style="color: rgb(10, 181, 255);">e **