New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy

It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.

New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
Fresco showing guests at a banquet and an enslaved person to the far right serving the banqueters, from the House of the Triclinium in Pompeii (40–79 CE), held by the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (photo by Carole Raddato via Flickr)