Mmm. My point, however, was that what Roman skepticism there is (and I can think of few entirely anti-Roman scholars) starts in the contemporary era. In our 19thC, unlike Cat's, it simply didn't exist in Europe.
Fair enough.
Rome was not the only slave-holding society that practiced widespread manumission (I'd argue that the American South is more unusual in terms of how it treated slaves than typical), though, and I wouldn't say they stopped expanding because it was wrong so much than because it's only possible to hold so much territory. And there were plenty of non-slave societies.
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Date: 2012-08-01 14:07 (UTC)Fair enough.
Rome was not the only slave-holding society that practiced widespread manumission (I'd argue that the American South is more unusual in terms of how it treated slaves than typical), though, and I wouldn't say they stopped expanding because it was wrong so much than because it's only possible to hold so much territory. And there were plenty of non-slave societies.