Hyperallergic on Mythryl: “How did Pompeii come to reach such levels of success and affluence?…”

How did Pompeii come to reach such levels of success and affluence? A new study argues that this was largely due to the labor of enslaved people, who were indispensable to the city’s growth until its demise in 79 CE.

hyperallergic.comNew Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s EconomyIt was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.

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