Rights and wrong about slavery

[mriana]

@morgankane01

Free Roman women were treated as underage people, under the auctoritas of the father, the husband or the son.

It was the same in the U.S. for a long time. Women couldn’t own property, vote, have credit, work, without her husband’s permission. If he died, the property went to his oldest male or his brother, unless she was all there was to inherit the property. Even then, it was problematic for her to own.

@morgankane01

As usual, the rich ones came off better.

As a rule, yes.

@morgankane01

Now, about roman slaves, men and women had to be available sexually for their masters.

Roman law and custom did not condemn homosexuality per se, but divided the people between active and passive. a Roman citizen had to be active. A slave had to accept to be passive, man or woman,

And this is where the abuse really thrived. Even if a female slave, who could be a child of 12 even, refused, then the abuse flew with beatings, if not more. It was hardly better, IMHO.