Towards a history of ancient Mediterranean slave systems

Building on the excellent new framework of a Mediterranean slave system proposed by Joly and Knust, this short response aims to explore three main issues that can further elaborate future application of the framework. The first issue concerns the processes that entangled the epichoric slave systems during the first Mediterranean slavery. The second raises the question whether we need a transitional period during the last two centuries BCE as a link between the first and second Mediterranean slave systems. The third stresses the need to give economic processes and phenomena a more significant role during the second Mediterranean slavery.