Archaeologists unearth ‘most shocking example of Roman slavery’ at Pompeii
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- čas přidán 7. 12. 2023
- A bakery where enslaved people were imprisoned and exploited to produce bread has been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii in what has been described as the most shocking example of slavery in the ancient Roman city.
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The cramped bakery with small windows barred with iron was part of a home that emerged during excavations in the Regio IX area of the Pompeii archaeological park in southern Italy.
The discovery provides more evidence on the daily life of Pompeii’s enslaved people, often forgotten by historical sources but who made up the majority of the population and whose hard labour propped up the city’s economy as well as the culture and fabric of Roman civilisation.
The home is believed to have been undergoing renovations when it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. But the remains of three victims were found in one of the bakery’s rooms in recent months, indicating the home still had occupants at the time.
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slightly better working conditions than an Amazon warehouse
I'm honestly not very surprised. Almost every ancient civilization had slaves, and they were treated poorly. I'm not sure what made some people think the Romans were any different.
I'm happy that you Brits are talking about the history of slavery. Here in the U.S., white GOP political candidates are claiming that slavery was a beneficial jobs training program that provided slaves with useful skills.
The funny thing is some Roman legionaires stereotyped bakers as softies.
Already sick of the smug comments by people who have no idea what the industrial production of bread by hand is like. Living in a cell beside the donkeys. Feeding ovens constantly with wood - ovens that never cool, that you live beside in the summer heat. Working all through the night every night if your life, literally wrestling with lumps of dough as big as you are: kneading is back-breaking work. This isn’t little one-pound artisan loaves.
Another totally depressing news to digest today... 😭🤮
I’m sure The Guardian said the British invented slavery.
I find the animal cruelty the worst part of it. I'm sure the slaves would've done the same to the donkey's if they hadn't been slaves. Poor animals locked up 24/7 inside a small room doing nothing but labor and sleep until death. No direct access to sunlight and even have their eyes covered. F humanity really.
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I wonder what they used the ovens for 🙊
At least they had a roof over their head, and a bit of exercise.
Did you even think that the bars were to keep people from stealing? You cannot expect to see “modern thoughts” here. Normal living people worked their selves just as hard to keep family and farm going back then. And all throughout hx, now we have machines, but, real farmers work into dark, get up in dark to care for farm and animals.
What do we want?
*REPARATIONS!*
When do we want it?
*NOW!*
We call it a gym these days. At least the exercise had a purpose.
Where are my reparations?
Could not just be the village bakery could it ? No of course not
No, it was an urban bakery. Just think about the quantities involved with several donkeys and millstones that size. They would produce thousands of loaves a day.
Not with a quern stone that size.
Wait till you hear about the slaves in africa...
Who said they were slaves? Maybe they were teenaged boys working their first job doing grunt labor?
Why did their bedrooms have bars on the windows?
I think think you need to study some history.
Yes, maybe they were all family.
@@eh1702 probably to protect themselves.
@@toriblocker3238 Tiny windows, high up. Now you’re phoning it in.
Modern Britain
How does pushing a turnstile treadmill prove they were slaves? It was a heck of a lot worse in the mines in Iberia.
Definitely NOT the most shocking… Sounds like a pretty cushy number for those times.
Far from cushy, but it was a living for people with no job skills.
Making bread in bulk by hand is EXTREMELY arduous, hot and sweaty and usually done at night because people want their bread fresh in the morning. This isn’t kneading one nice little loaf at a time.
For the love of soy, where are the repatriations!?
But I was told that Britain and America were the only countries in history that had slavery /s
who told you that? the strawman voice in your head?
No silly. We just have to feel forever guilty about it. Non western countries get a poverty pass.
@@thl205
Your fellow Leftoids claim it all the time.
weren't the donkeys pulling the wheel, weren't the slaves just leading the donkeys, not much fun but not exactly shocking though - but I guess you thought you needed a clickbait headline, slow day?
‘Most shocking example of Roman slavery’ is in quotation marks. Quote most likely taken from the archeologists at the site.
Or both. Also, there's no particular reason to think slaves were involved, it may have just as easily been an apprentice or the baker's son.
You have no idea what kneading bread is like, do you? They weren’t making little one-pound loaves like today. They were kneading huge loads of dough in the middle of the night, effectively in a cell. It’s literally wrestling with 50lb weights, in what would have been unbearable heat.