ABSTRACT
Greece. Some of these slaves had been captured by pirates, but certain areas, such as Thrace
(northeast of Greece), supplied large numbers of slaves for the Greek market. These slaves
might have been prisoners captured in local wars, or simply unimportant people, powerless
to prevent their enslavement. Men, women, and children were all supplied for sale, and
Greek authors recorded that Thracian (THRAY-shun) parents sometimes sold their own
children into slavery. Children born to slave parents were automatically slaves themselves.
