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by IncRnd 1683 days ago
Why is there the assumption that people of lower classes were slaves?
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Nominally free lower classes would have lived in an entirely different part of town. We know quite a lot about the society in question from written sources, this is far from blank slate archaeology (where everything we find seems to default to "used for some ceremonial purpose")
Matter of definition, I suppose.