- Philip J. Adler & Randall L. Pouwels, World Civilizations (Thomson Wadsworth 2005), sid 129Roman slavery was harsher than had been the case earlier. The large merchant fleet and the navy depended on galley slaves.
Men är slavarna på de romerska och grekiska fartygen i själva verket en myt? - Att de skulle varit slavar, alltså. Eller fångar.
- Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), sid 322The common impression is that galley slaves are as old as galleys. In point of fact, as a significant naval institution they very likely go back no further than the fifteenth century A.D.
Casson är ett återkommande namn i ämnet. Vet inte om det beror på att han har mer att komma med än någon annan, eller helt enkelt studerat just denna fråga mer ingående.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_slaveGreek and Roman navies generally preferred to rely on freemen to man their galleys. Several instances though are recorded when slaves were put at the oars, mostly under conditions of emergency. In some cases, these people were given freedom thereafter, while in others they began their service aboard as freedman.
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