[Doctor Stochastic]

Greek and Roman mining slaves had an expected lifespan of about two years. Most were captured soldiers who would have enslaved the Romans had they won instead. At least this is what the tour guides in Italy claimed.

[lentulusgracchus]

Greek and Roman mining slaves had an expected lifespan of about two years.

I didn't know that. But you support my point that Southern chattel slavery was not somehow uniquely evil, which is a charge often made by Northerners in exculpation of their destruction and subjugation of the South.