The Development of Western Civilization a Study in Ethical Economic And Politi
The Development of Western Civilization a Study in Ethical Economic And Politi
Jacob Dorsey Forrest
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Cit. , 78, 79. THE ORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTURE 115 will of the lord, but the farmer's children were usually allowed to hold the same tenure. These cultivators, whether remaining under the arbitrary imperial officers, or escaping from their exac- tions to become tenants of neighboring private landlords, thus fell into the position of colons. 1 Everywhere the exigencies of cultivation and of the government's treasury were producing a system very similar to that which we find in the Middle Ages; b...ut the condition of the agricultural laborers was less free than it became later, because the Romans had long-established methods which tended to bind the workmen, and skilled superintendents who could keep them in control. A great change had come over Roman agriculture since the days of Cato and Columella when the domain was cultivated by slaves working in gangs for the sole profit of the master, only a few colons occupying small lots in severalty. The proprietor had found that better results could be obtained by giving the slave a small lot to cultivate, a portion of the produce becoming the slave's peculium.
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