SKLLAVËRIA NË TERRITORET SHQIPTARE GJATË ANTIKITETIT TË VONË DHE MESJETËS SË HERSHME
SLAVERY IN THE ALBANIAN TERRITORIES DURING THE LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Summary/Abstract: Slavery compounds a world historic phenomenon that has affected all the continents, sometimes at the same time or one after another. The slavery sources in the antiquity and in the Middle Ages were a lot, but was overwhelming the slavery as consequence of different conflicts and wars. The question of slavery among the Illyrians has occupied little space in the papers of the different authors within the ancient Albanian territories, nonetheless the slavery in antiquity has been one of the most important social structures of the time directly connected with the production relations. Usually the slavery drastically and forever changed the people's life, but the bad luck chased the slaves even after winning so much dreamed freedom. Also the freedom had the proper difficulties, especially about the integration ofthe liberated slaves in the society. Thus, in Rome, the liberated slaves were seen with disbelief and contempt. They after being liberated never became free men, but liberated. The hard conditions of slavery, and the low social status of the slaves, made that many of them dream and try to escape to achieve the freedom not only through liberation from their owners, but even through escape or organized rebellions. The development and other dimensions carried the slavery phenomenon with the invasion of the peoples living outside the borders of the Roman Empire, directly influencing in the situation of the population that after that would face the age of the early Middle Ages.

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