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Attempt an account of slavery in Rome.
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Solution
- Rome produced a new labour force called slaves.
- A major source of revenue to the Roman state was slave trade.
- Slave labour led to the impoverishment of free labour.
- The island of Delos became a great slave market.
- There were more slave revolts in Rome than in Greece.
- The revolt of Spartacus was the most famous.
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