They had slave dealers, who went to foreign lands and captured/bought poor people, sometimes even free-born children, but this was illegal.
the slaves in rome were prisoners from war when rome defeated Carthage they took over 200,000 slaves and half were women and children most men were killed due to possible uprisings and soldiers were more commonly men. they were alsoanyone that was in extreme debt(rare slaves)
most slaves were captured from other countries.
Abandoned children in Rome were made into slaves, fathers had the right to sell their children as slaves, and slaves were also captured in wars and brought back to Rome to be sold.
Slaves came to ancient Rome through slave traders from Europe and Middle East.
Most slaves were prisoners of war.
by buying them from African slave traders
Yes, if you remember the story of Moses he took the slaves out of Egypt to the promise land. They were Jewish. Most of ancient Rome was built by Jewish slaves.
Rome was governed in lots of different ways. The most powerful person was the senate. Plebebians were ordinary people. The slaves had no rights
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A freed slave in Rome was called libertus (freedman). There were scores of freedmen as the Romans were in the habit of freeing many of their slaves. Over time, given the number of slaves which were brought to Rome and that many Romans left the city, most of the population of the city of Rome were freedmen or their descendants.
Most slaves were captured from other countries. Slavery was not determined by race.