Introduction - The Age and Origin of Slavery in the Romanian Lands
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How did the Romanians adopt slavery?
Slavery existed before the Romanian states because the Tatars themselves had saves.
How can we prove that the origins of slavery in Romanian lands have nothing to do with the appearance of the Gypsies?
The gypsies just became the only slaves as Tatars disappeared and merged into the mass of gypsy slaves.
Did the Gypsies arrive in the Romanian lands as slaves or as freemen?
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How did Gypsy slavery work in the Romanian lands?
By crossing the Danube they changed master and their social status remained the same.
How can we classify the Gypsy slave population?
- belonging to a master: 1. princely slaves, 2. monastery slaves, 3. boyar slaves
- The prince gave slaves to the monasteries and boyars, remaining the sole owner of the slaves.
What did princely slaves do?
- work in the countryside
- work at the princely court
- were required to carry out any work demanded of them
- had to pay taxed
Who were the princes' slaves?
How did monasteries gain their slaves? And what did they do?
- Gift from the prince or boyars
- increased number by marriages between freemen of the monastery and gypsies. they all became slaves
work:
- agricultural labour
- craftsmen
- spin linen (women)
How did the boyars get their slaves? What did they do?
- gift from the prince
- inherited
- spoils of war
- they did hard tough work and were tied to villages/estates
How can the group of Gypsies be categorized other than by their masters?
In what 4 categories were the princely slaves divided?
- rudari/aurari: collection of gold from riverbeds
- ursari: wandered the countryside with a dancing bear (tanana)
- lingurari: who made wooden spoons or household objects
- laiesi: blacksmiths or thiefs
In what categories were the private slaves divided?
- laiesi: wandered the country to pay their masters like the princely laiesi, unless thei had to work on a building site
- vatrasi: were not nomadic, assimilated into the local population.
vatrasi can be divided in:
- tigani casasi/de curte (manor gypsies): served at the bayor's manor, craftsmen.
- tigani de ogor/de camp (estate/field Gypsies): had to work agriculture. Most numerous and toughest work.
What defined slaves in the Romanian social system?
Masters were only obliged to feed/clothe slaves at his manor.
What was slaves' law?
- a number of norms that referred to the obligations of slaves tot heir master and the state.
- possible punishments
- norms slaves-freemen
What rights did the Gypsies have and how were they dealt with?
- disputes among Gypsies were dealt with by the village leader/gypsy leaders
- manslaughter or disputes with freemen were dealt with by the state
- The killing of a slave had to be rebuked with another slave
- petty crime was forgiven, like stealing
- gypsies were allowed to marry with approval of their master
What did different reforms in the law bring? 1746/1749
- peasants were given back their freedom
- a fixed price was set for buying a married slave
- it was no longer permitted to separate children from their parents
- when they married a freemen, they no longer became a slave
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