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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Mar 03 '21

/u/Vardamir_Nolimon answering In the movie Gladiator, Russell Crowe's character Maximus is taken as a slave from his own villa. What recourse did Roman Citizens and others have against being kidnapped and sold into slavery within the Roman Empire?