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By Jennifer A. Glancy

This is often the 1st paperback variation of the enlightening Oxford college hardcover released in 2002. Glancy the following situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural atmosphere, arguing that smooth students have continuously underestimated the pervasive impression of slavery at the institutional buildings, ideologies, and practices of the early church buildings - and upon the our bodies of the enslaved. Her cautious consciousness to the physically event of subjection and violation that constituted slavery makes this an necessary booklet for an individual drawn to slavery in early Christianity. comprises particular chapters on Jesus and Paul.

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Given high rates of infant mortality, this would hardly have been an unusual circumstance. In other cases, the mistress’s baby displaced the slave’s own infant at the breast. Those who followed the advice of the first-century physician Soranus would even prefer a nurse whose own child was still an infant. 56 Despite the warmth a woman might feel for the baby she suckled, she would still be concerned for the baby she had prematurely weaned or could only nurse when she was sure the little master or mistress had consumed his or her fill.

This oneiric reasoning depends on the widespread ancient recognition of slaves as benign sexual outlets for their owners. In Petronius’s Satyricon, the freedman Trimalchio famously boasts, “To do your master’s bidding is nothing to be ashamed of. 59 Although some matrons exploited their male slaves sexually, constraints on the sexuality of freeborn women rendered this practice less acceptable than the sexual exploitation of male or female slaves by male slaveholders. The consequences of conception varied in these two sets of circumstances.

57 At the death of this kind mistress and foster aunt, Harriet learned the identity of her new owner. She was the property of her late mistress’s niece, a child of five years. Harriet quickly became the sexual prey of her young mistress’s father. The parameters of slave life were similar in the ancient world. A slave beloved by household members for nurturing them in their youth could be sold to another household because of financial need or at the time of estate settlement. Even more commonly, a family that sentimentally retained the old nurse would think little of selling the nurse’s own children away from her.

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