Thread 17827120

Since it was a social class thing, was it like with the gentry in England was it common to give them a stipend/educate them? Was it typical for them to stay in the house or be sent away? Was it a source of contention with wives or just a "boys will be boys" because slave women were seen as mostly beneath notice?

I'm not talking about boring written laws, but the more important/stronger law of custom.

Rape them and worse.
Search up what Tiberius did in Capri and you'll re-evaluate the plausibility of stories about Hilary Clinton slicing off trafficked girls faces.
Elites are full of anti social High IQ monsters. 120 days of sodom is pure truth. Don't believe "HIGH IQ" self reported correlation data.

Recognizing the children as your own was taboo because the legal barrier between enslaved and free people was important, so individual households dealt with it in whatever way they saw fit as long as they didn't violate the taboo. Sometimes these children would be considered no different than any other slave, sometimes they would be favored with special treatment.

>>17827120 (OP)
>What did the Romans do with the children they had by slaves?
Depends on the owner. Strictly speaking the child of a slave is also a slave, but wasn't uncommon for them to be made freedmen, at he same time there was also literally nothing stopping a cruel man from treating them just as badly as any other slave.
A few were acknowledged and inherited something, but only if daddy was so besotted he freed and married mommy. For example, Cato the younger was the grandkid of Cato the elder's son by his slave Salonia.

>>17827120 (OP)
Rape them and expose them to others who might rape them.
Having sex with a slave was already likened to masturbation and the general opinion on child slaves was that they weren't good for anything other than sex.
Sugar of lead is a helluva drug.

>>17827121
>search up some outlandish ancient propaganda and you'll reevaluate the plausibility of modern propaganda!

>>17827648
This, Suetonius was a hack.

>>17827464
>>17827439
To explain my confusion in reading your responses, Christianity in Europe is often described as puritanical and Roman slavery mild.

Even if this is exaggerated, I think very few people would argue Roman social stratification was more intense than later Christian piety.

And yet, bastards by adulterous nobles (major big chungus sin) were legitimized or more commonly made use of in some elevated official retainer capacity despite being a public symbol of their sires weakness/sin, while Roman slaves are at best quietly made free in what is supposed to be a more mild system.

you know op 1 fucking google search and dozens of wikipedia articles would have done you better than asking /his/

>>17827120 (OP)
trade with your friends like irl pokemon

What's Nigel farage doing in Rome?

>>17827120 (OP)
Usually made free if their father was free but they weren't entitled to any inheritance. For a woman who was free their children would be born free and entitled to inherit from her.
>>17828209
The attitude on bastards is different in different periods. They were hardly any different from any 'legitimate' child in the Early Middle Ages or in England until the 11th century. All children regardless of their mother were considered legitimate, only the father mattered. This was a major problem for Merovingian and Carolingian kings as they regarded all of their children bastard or not to be equally legitimate. In Ireland this attitude never went away. Also, a slave and a free child are two completely different things, slavery in the Middle Ages in the West did not have a strong hold on society or formed an important part of it unlike the earlier Roman Empire.

>>17827120 (OP)
At the peak, the power of the pater familias was such that he could kill his wives and children same as he would one of his slaves.

>>17830490
>wake up
>breakfast served by the slaves, wash it all down with some nice vinegar
>beat your slaves because the food was too salty (yesterday it wasnt salty enough)
>your son starts crying so you beat him because he is weak
>all this beating made you horny so you rape your daughter
>go to work
>i.e. doing fuck all while you watch the slaves toil away on your fields
>get horny again so you rape one of your slaves
>dinner time, drown that shit in garum!!!
>time to check todays yield!
>its not enough so nobody gets to eat
>go visit your bros
>everybody brought a prepubescent girl and a boy for an orgy
>get shitfaced on watered down wine
>beat your wife at home because she was nagging you
>rape your daughter again for good measure
>go to sleep
The Romans sure were a peculiar people.