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RT Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole)At its peak, the Roman Empire operated on slave labour at a scale that is almost incomprehensible. Estimates suggest that slaves comprised somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of the population of Roman Italy.They built the roads, worked the mines, staffed the great agricultural estates, served in the households of the wealthy, and kept the entire economic machinery of the ancient world turning. Without them, Rome as we understand it doesn't exist.These people were fed. Kept alive a ...