Western Civilization I / Unit 4 WC1 0307 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Slaves Did, From Bureaucrat to Mine
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The idea
Enslaved people managed businesses, kept records, made crafts and policed Athens as Scythian archers; some bought their freedom. The mines were worst: silver and salt mines killed workers, and the anchor likens them to later plantation slavery.
In practice
The twenty thousand mine slaves who fled to Sparta in the war.
Where people slip
The plantation comparison is the anchor's, attributed.
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