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The Romans and all other ancient societies got their slaves by various means. Many were prisoners of war, or inhabitants of a captured city. Some were sold to the Romans by owners in different countries. Some were children of slaves and yet others were abandoned babies that a person would take in and raise as a slave.

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because they conqured almost every country in their area and more around those areas as well.

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Slaves (men, women and families) were mostly captives, prisoners of war, in both Ancient Greece and Rome.

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