The Slave Owner Who Survived a Slave Revolt
This happened during the massive slave uprising in Roman Sicily, known as the First Servile War. At the time, Sicily was a living hell even by Roman standards. Because constant wars of conquest caused slave prices to crash, owners started thinking, 'Why bother feeding or housing them properly?' 'It’s way cheaper to just work them to death and buy new ones than to actually take care of them.' Slaves lived and died in a nightmare every single day. It got so bad they had to resort to highway robbery just to avoid starving to death.
Among the owners, there was a particularly notorious bastard named Damophilus. He and his wife made a hobby out of shackling slaves in cages, branding them, and torturing anyone who annoyed them. Eventually, the slaves, pushed to their limit by Damophilus's cruelty, revolted under a leader named Eunus. They captured the city of Enna and went on a total rampage, massacring almost every resident.
"The community finds the story a powerful testament to humanity, noting that while the cruelty was repaid with blood, true kindness was the only thing that could survive the carnage."
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