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The Roman slave trade varied. The slaves were captured by the Roman Army. If a captured prisoner did not get sent to the arena or some other place to be killed, he or she would be sold as a slave. Slaves could work half a day for their master and half a day for themselves. The children of slaves would be free people. They would not be slaves. When the Roman Empire stopped expanding its source of slaves greatly decreased.

In the Atlantic slave trade, the Arabs captured the slaves and sold them to the western ship captains. When they crossed the Atlantic, the situation varied. Some of the Latin American nations followed Roman Law. When the nations gained independence and the slaves died, their children were free and slavery ended. Brazil retained the Latin system except that children born to slave parents were slaves. In English colonies slaves belonged to their masters 24 hours a day. The children of slaves remained slaves.

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