Ancient Roman Slave Economy (2nd century BCE–4th century CE)

1. Lex Claudia restricts senatorial shipping

   Jan 1, 218 BCELabels: Lex Claudia, Roman Senate

   • Wikipedia Lex Claudia
   • Oxford Academic
   • Wikipedia Equites

2. Latifundia expand after Punic War conquests

   Jan 1, 200 BCELabels: Latifundia, Punic Wars

   • Britannica Rome economy
   • Britannica Cato
   • Britannica De agri

3. Cato’s farm manual normalizes slave-run estates

   Jan 1, 160 BCELabels: Cato the, De agri

   • Britannica De agri
   • Wikipedia Cato

4. First Servile War erupts in Sicily

   Jan 1, 135 BCELabels: First Servile, Sicily

   • Wikipedia First Servile

5. Second Servile War renews Sicily’s slave crisis

   Jan 1, 104 BCELabels: Second Servile, Sicily

   • Wikipedia Second Servile

6. Spartacus leads the Third Servile War

   Jan 1, 73 BCELabels: Spartacus, Third Servile

   • Britannica Third Servile
   • Wikipedia Third Servile

7. Augustus limits mass manumission by will

   Jan 1, 2 BCELabels: Lex Fufia, Augustus

   • Wikipedia Lex Fufia
   • Gaius via Ulpian

8. Lex Aelia Sentia tightens rules for freeing slaves

   Jan 1, 4Labels: Lex Aelia, Augustan law

   • Wikipedia Lex Aelia
   • Roman History 31BC

9. Antoninus Pius curbs extreme owner violence

   Jan 1, 150Labels: Antoninus Pius, imperial constitution

   • Digest excerpt
   • Britannica Roman law

10. Caracalla grants broad citizenship, excluding slaves

    Jan 1, 212Labels: Constitutio Antoniniana, Caracalla

    • Ostia Antica
    • Britannica Caracalla

11. Diocletian’s Price Edict lists slave price ceilings

    Jan 1, 301Labels: Diocletian, Price Edict

    • Wikipedia Price Edict
    • Cambridge Core

12. Constantine legalizes manumission in church

    Jun 8, 316Labels: Constantine, manumissio in

    • Justinian Code English
    • Wikipedia Slavery Rome

13. Coloni tied to land as labor obligations harden

    Jan 1, 332Labels: Coloni, Constantine

    • Encyclopedia 1911 Theodora
    • Wikipedia Colonus
    • ScienceDirect colonate

14. Late Roman economy shifts toward regulated, inherited statuses

    Jan 1, 400Labels: Late Roman, inherited statuses

    • Britannica Roman law
    • ScienceDirect colonate