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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 217437, member: 66&quot;]I won&#039;t believe that for a moment.&nbsp; Yes slaves did physical labor, but so did the poor and lower class free men as well.&nbsp; I can&#039;t say much about populations in ancient Rome, but in the pre-civil war south only a minority of the population owned slaves.&nbsp; Slaves were expensive and you had to have a fair amount of money in order to afford to purchase, house, and feed slaves.&nbsp; And I&#039;m sure these poor, lower class, and low middleclass people didn&#039;t just sit around all day hoping that someones slave would do their work for them.&nbsp; Much of the non-slave owning population did plenty of physical labor too.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know there were no slaves working at the pre-civil war southern mints.&nbsp; (I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if some of the officials owned slaves but theydidn&#039;t work at the mint.)&nbsp; Most of the mint work required people with some education, many would have to post bonds, and they would have to be trusted around valuable.&nbsp; It just doesn&#039;t seem too likely they would have employed slaves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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