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Book contents
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Maps
- Part A Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Part B Ancient Greece and China
- Section V Law, Justice, and Equity
- Section VI Legal Status
- 16 Citizens and Aliens
- 17 Women
- 18 Slavery and Democracy
- Section VII Responsibility and Punishment
- Section VIII War and Amnesty
- Part C India and the Roman Republic
- Part D Rabbinic Law and the Roman Empire
- Part E Final Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
18 - Slavery and Democracy
from Section VI - Legal Status
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2019
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Maps
- Part A Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Part B Ancient Greece and China
- Section V Law, Justice, and Equity
- Section VI Legal Status
- 16 Citizens and Aliens
- 17 Women
- 18 Slavery and Democracy
- Section VII Responsibility and Punishment
- Section VIII War and Amnesty
- Part C India and the Roman Republic
- Part D Rabbinic Law and the Roman Empire
- Part E Final Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Nearly every ancient society had slavery in some form or other. In ancient China, the society was stratified in rigid classes, with slaves constituting not the lowest class and in any event not numbering more than one percent of the population.
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- Ancient Legal ThoughtEquity, Justice, and Humaneness From Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud, pp. 290 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019