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Idea of slavery from Aristotle to Augustine

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This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, or a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply that slavery was accepted without question. This book draws on a wide range of sources, pagan, Jewish and Christian, over ten centuries, to challenge the common assumption of passive acquiescence in slavery, and the associated view that..,

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306.362 GAR i

Z. HANDIMAN

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306.362 GAR i

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 1997

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xv,269p.; 22 cm.

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English

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0-521-57433-1

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306.362

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SLAVERY - PUBLIC OPINION

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