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XIII. ROMANS—POLITICAL SLAVES.
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It was an easy matter to engraft despotism upon a society morally, politically, and economically ruined by the slaveholding oligarchy2. The C?sars and the emperors inaugurated and developed it, and at that time nothing else would have suited Rome. Domestic slavery had destroyed the republican spirit, and the vitality3 of ancient republican institutions. The political condition of the empire—that world-ruling despotism—under the C?sars and the emperors[14] was the legitimate4 result of chattelhood and of oligarchism. Political and domestic slavery now went hand in hand, both of them supreme6 over man and society.
During the reign7 of the six C?sars, rural as well as urban slavery rapidly began to be reduced to method and to legal forms. Augustus tried to modify somewhat the cruel treatment of the slaves: he abolished, for instance, the custom of branding their cheeks with a hot iron, and ordered instead that they should wear metallic8 collars. It came into vogue9, also, that a woman who had given birth to three children was free from hard labor10 the rest of her life; if she had four she became wholly free.
[Pg 150]
The slave traffic was very active over all the imperial Roman world during the whole period of its existence, and was the most lucrative11 branch of commerce. It was also strictly12 adjusted by police regulations.
Augustus likewise made efforts to morally re-invigorate, so to speak, the decaying oligarchy; but this attempt was even more unsuccessful than the former. Every person who is even slightly acquainted with history must be familiar with the absolute
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