(July 1, 2016 at 9:07 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You have a sanitized disney version of slavery in mind when you imagine biblical slavery, Steve. That pretty much settles the argument, regardless of your idiocy in buying that line.
Yeah... ancient slavery was Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and everything.
http://moatmtv.weebly.com/herculaneum-skeletons.html
Quote:A 14-year old girl who is most likely a slave was also found. Scars were found on the bones of her upper arms which exhibit how she must have used those muscles for heavier work than she should have. There were also grooves on her teeth which reveal that she suffered from malnutrition when she was roughly 11 months old and that she had been suffering from severe sickness and/or starvation.8 This reveals to us quite a bit about Roman social life as it was obvious that the lower classes, especially slaves were often malnourished and their bodies had been damaged from over exertion while working. This emphasised the gap between the poor like the slave girl who was very malnourished and the wealthy like the ring lady who was very well-nourished and shows us how slavery was very much a part of ancient Roman social life.
A regular piece of cake! And this would have been a house slave, not a field hand or an industrial worker.
