Every so often, it appears, people do indeed need to be reminded that, because the enslavement of people was the foundation of the Roman-era economy, the foundation of the Roman-era economy was the enslavement of people.
Dave Andress
On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii"
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Abstract. Historians of premodern economies, in contrast to modern ones, have only infrequently contemplated the economic contribution of slavery. Here, I
