How many slaves were there in ancient Rome?

Slaves were the backbone of the economy of ancient Rome long before Rome became an Empire. Rome was a classic slave state. What was the number of slaves owned by the Romans? It is not easy to answer, if only because Rome itself was quite different at different points in its history, both in terms of geographic size and population. The proportion of slaves among the Roman population also fluctuated because of a variety of factors. For example, after successful conquests, the number of slaves increased, of course. The Romans enslaved prisoners and some of the conquered people and thus increased the number of the labor force in their country — guest workers had not been invented yet, the Romans themselves preferred to fight and govern, at most, to live on the welfare (it was called different then, but the idea was approximately the same), but not to work cleaning aqueducts, not to mention repairing the city sewers. The external influx of slaves for the Romans was the traditional simple, reliable, and effective method of boosting the economy. <a href="https://medium.com/@ancient.rome/how-many-slaves-were-there-in-ancient-rome-7f31ad00b70e">Read More</a>