Question

PLEASE HELP!!!! Explain the difference between freedom and slavery in Byzantine society. For example, what does it mean, in a legal sense, to go from being a slave to being free, or vice versa? How was slavery viewed in Byzantine law?

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Answer:

Freedom and slavery in Byzantine society:

The Eastern Roman Empire or the Byzantium was the extension of the Roman Empire and they considered slavery as legal in their empire. Byzantium slaves included the prisoners from war and they were made to work as slaves in home and in churches. The law of nations introduce a division into three kinds of men freeman, and in opposition to them slaves, and thirdly freed men who had ceased to be slaves.

Slaves were in the power of the masters a power to life in the law of nations for among all nations it may be remarked that masters have the power of life and death over there slaves and that everything acquired by the slave is acquired for the master.

During the period the transition from slave to freemen took place by calling the slave to free labor and employing them in various fields and some even started to seek self-employment. Slaves may be may be manumitted by their masters at any time.