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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

How many slaves were there in the Roman Empire? Were they cruelly treated or was it possible to go on to win fame, fortune and freedom?

And how often, like Spartacus, did they rebel?

Here in conversation with Spencer Mizzin, Guy de la Bedwaye explores the remarkable and often

brutal history of slavery in the world's most powerful empire.

So, Guy, you wrote an article on slavery in the Roman Empire for the May issue of BBC History

magazine. In that, you observed that slaves across the empire were both visible and invisible

at the same time. I wonder if you could kind of expand on that. What did you mean by that?

Let's be absolutely clear about the Roman world. Slaves are everywhere, in every context, imaginable.

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