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How did the slave owners in ancient Rome treat female slaves? What are the means?

Many ancient countries, such as ancient Greece, Egypt, Babylon, China before the Warring States and Rome, all experienced slavery. Slaves are generally made up of criminals, debtors, invaded aborigines and black slaves sold from Africa. Slaves under the rule of slavery not only have no freedom of life, but even have no basic rights to be human. Their bodies and even their lives belong to the slave owners.

Slavery in China ended earlier and entered the feudal society during the Warring States Period. People under the rule of feudal society were liberated in freedom of life. At the same time, many western countries are still in slavery, among which slaves living in ancient Rome are in the most miserable situation. Slave owners in ancient Rome once divided tools into three types, one is dumb tools, such as hoes, sickles, wagons and other farm tools, the other is screaming tools, such as cattle and horses, and the last one is talking tools, which refers to slaves. It can be seen that slaves are not even people in the eyes of slave owners.

Slave owners in ancient Rome would select strong male slaves from slaves, train them into gladiators, and then drive these gladiators into the arena to kill each other, or put them in a cage with hungry beasts. Slave owners sat in the audience, taking their own lives and blood as gimmicks for fun and earning a lot of money. The famous Colosseum in ancient Rome witnessed the tragic fate of these gladiators.

Except for the male slaves who were elected as gladiators, most of them were sent to farms and became free coolies for life. They did the hardest work, ate the cheapest food, and were beaten or even killed if they were slightly dissatisfied with the slave owners at work. The fate of female slaves is even more tragic. They not only have to do hard work, but also be servants for slave owners. Some beautiful ones, once seen by slave owners, will become tools to vent their desires.

They worked hard during the day and were tortured by slave owners at night. In China, there is a saying that a mother depends on her children, but in ancient Rome, once a slave became pregnant, she would become a thorn in the side of the hostess, who would arrange them with more bitter and tiring jobs, so many children were stillborn. Very few lucky children were not recognized by slave owners. Even though their blood flowed from slave owners, they were still slaves, and the final result was hard work or being sold.

Fortunately, with the development of the times, slavery has completely disappeared in this world. In modern society, everyone is equal. As long as you work hard, you will have a stable and rich life.