Slavery In Ancient Rome

There is no doubt that Ancient Rome civilization left a positive impact on the “Western World” such as: Religion like Christianity, architecture, and lastly, a strong government system with organized political views. However, even though Ancient Rome was very positive it also had some negative factors. One major problem that I will focus on is slavery, Rome was very heavy on slavery during the ancient period. Which leads me to pounder, what was slavery most important effect on Roman society? As a matter of fact, slavery was very important towards the social class and economy. Slavery even effected some laws throughout the ancient Rome society the laws helped and shaped relationship between master and slave for the better or worse. And lastly,
According to UNRV.com a passage that interested me was “At the height of the empire in the mid second century AD, some have estimated that the total slave population may have approached 10 million people, or approximately 1/6 of the population as a whole.” The issue behind the high percentage of slaves were due to the cheap slave labor replacement this meant slaves replace citizen who work this issue caused a weakened social system which had a direct role in the death of the ancient Rome
However, no matter how the slave owner treats the slave that individual must obey. An example that relates is a play called Pseudolus this is a primary source the author of the play is Plautus; he was a Roman play writer. Most of Plautus plays were musical comedy he used this genre to amuse mostly Roman audience who could relate to certain situation that they were exposed to at that time. Pseudolus, which was a play setting back at the end of the Second Punic War (201 B.C.) Plautus describes how Roman master treated their slaves, and the condition each slave endure throughout the story. Two Characters he used in his play to show this was Ballio who was a master of slaves however, he was very mean towards his slaves. Another character Plautus introduced was Simo whose personality towards the slaves was nicer than Ballio. Plautus showed how different slave owners treated their slave during the Roman time, and how loyal sometimes each slave was no matter how the slave owner treated them. To be a good slave in Ancient Rome was also represented in the play was from Act V, Scene 4. Messenio, (who is a slave in the play) a slave who sum up what a good slave does basically, he tends to what they owner wants them to do however, they try to do it precise without any mistakes due to punishment which