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The author outlines a method for choosing terminology, preferring “enslaved person” and Latin dominus/domina to counter dehumanizing language and to disrupt automatic racial assumptions. The note also discusses the limits of Roman sources and the near-absence of enslaved voices.","Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook.  \nGet a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up  \nand see terms and conditions.  \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  \nAlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in  \nyour inbox.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDescription 1  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor H& H  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIs it not crucial to try to understand the bewildering diversity ofthe real, from the most noble to the most abject?  \n—Javier Cercas  \nWhen I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds ofmillions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation aftergeneration have left behind them no record whatever. We do not even know their names.  \n—George Orwell  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAUTHOR’S NOTE  \nWhen anyone writes about slavery in the ancient world, they are also writing about slavery as we know it in the modern world. Slavery has not been abolished in the twenty-Йrst century; an estimated 50 million people live in slavery as I write this in 2024. When we write about ancient slavery, however, we are talking about a speciЙc form of slavery, which in the modern world has just one real parallel in scale and horror: chattel slavery in the Americas and the Caribbean. Chattel slavery is a particular type of slavery in which the law deЙnes the slave asthe property of the slaver which can be bought, sold, willed, lent, and used as a commodity. In this system, the children of enslaved women are born as property too. The Romans practiced this form of slavery, as did every single other ancient culture, and so did the colonial settlers in the Americas and the Caribbean. The last person to have been captured and enslaved and traГcked to the USA, Matilda McCrear, was alive during the Second World War. The last American person to experience chattel slavery—Elizabeth Cash Green—died in 1975, when my mum was twenty. This is not the distant past, and apologists for American slavery both before and after abolition have used Roman slavery as ajustiЙcation for centuries. They still do. The race “science” developed to defend and justify slavery in the Americas remains embedded in modern law, culture, and experience. It isn’t possible to write about Roman slavery without referencing modern slavery and its impacts on the modern world. And so, with that in mind, here are a few explanatory notes on my approach.  \nFirstly, terminology. The debate about whether to use the term “slave” or“enslaved person” has been going on for a long time in academic circles. Those who defend the continued use of “slave” argue that it’s the easier term, that it accurately depicts the experience of the enslaved, and that it is, generally, the term that most enslaved people would use to describe themselves. In that last one, they are not wrong. The corpus of Latin inscriptions contains innumerable  \nepitaphs in which dead Roman people described themselves with merely their name and the word servus—slave. However, those who advocate for the use of“enslaved person” argue that this terminology highlights the human being at the center of the narrative. It also emphasizes that enslavement is a process of dehumanization, often of violence, not a single act. The debate continues and there remains no such thing as a neutral term. I can only tell you my feelings on the situation and my reasons for preferring the term “enslaved person.”1 I believe that the word “slave” is inherently and deliberately dehumanizing. 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