The Roman Guide to Slave Management by Jerry Toner gives as complete a picture as we have of the indignities and cruelties of slavery in ancient Rome. It is presented as an advice manual by ...

“The Roman Guide to Slave Management: A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx” By Jerry Toner. Overlook Press. 192 pages. $24.95. Falx sees nothing wrong with his treatment of his slaves ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

Those who fought against Rome knew that they could be sent to the slave-market if taken as a prisoner-of-war. ... Books. Slavery in the Roman Empre by RH Barrow (Barnes & Noble, 1998) ...

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts. Someone’s husband trying on a Roman ...

Whose order was it, for the third platoon of Company C to attack? Just before first light, in October 1944 in eastern France, who sent those young GIs up a slope against Germans known to be dug in,… ...

THE WAR BEFORE THE WAR Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul From the Revolution to the Civil War By Andrew Delbanco Illustrated. 453 pp. Penguin Press. $30.

The first evidence of Roman Britain's slave trade has been unearthed: a receipt for a young French girl bought for the equivalent price of a small sports car today.