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home   Aqueducts   Roads  Nero   Circus Maximus   Weapons The Daily Life of a Slave If you were wondering what people where doing in other peoples houses cleaning, making food, and doing chores, they are slaves. Many wealthy people have slaves in Rome.  v  Romans whipped slaves with whips made of twined rope.  v  Wealthy people owned 100 or even 1,000 slaves.  v  There were more male slaves then female slaves.  v  Female slaves were usually well educated.  v  Masters sometimes made male and female slaves have relationships.  v  Children that was born from slaves was automatically a slave.  v  Master sometimes freed slaves out of generosity or trade.  v  Female slaves cared for the owners. They even sometimes acted as clerks, secretaries, ladies' maids, hairdressers, and enterainers.  v  Masters had access to all of his female slaves.  v  Freed women worked in many jobs.  v  Poor households owned several slaves.  v  Masters would also pay their slaves to have intercourse, so that new slaves would be created. Slaves in Rome are just like modern day housekeepers and maids.