Snowden Lectures: Keith Bradley, The Bitter Chain of Slavery
‘The Bitter Chain of Slavery’: Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome Keith Bradley Towards the middle of the fifth century AD the Christian presbyter and moralist Salvian of Marseilles composed a highly polemical tract, On the Governance of God, in which he explained to the decadent Romans around him how it was that the destructive presence in their midst of…