The history of slavery shown in the movie's beginning

THE ROBE is notable for students of history in its accurate depiction of ancient slavery.

At the movie's beginning, Roman tribune Marcellus is strolling through the crowded slave market of Rome. Arabic merchant peddlers of human flesh are displaying their hapless human wares for display. Notice that all of the unfortunate slaves are Caucasian people. Notable is an Egyptian physician up for sale, the phsysician is well dressed and standing proudly with his arms crossed. This was a continuation of slavery from the ancient Grecian world where people of professional occupations could be slaves.

Black slavery as recent history tells us extends back from the 19th century to the 17th century, when early European sailors and merchants found value in Negro slavery. But for two thousand years before that time, Greek civilization, the early Roman Republic, and the Roman empire were all built upon white slavery. White people were far easier to come by than the few Negroes to be found far away deep in the heart of desert Africa.

Far away across the world, slavery was growing in the rising Far Eastern civilizations and that of the Han Chinese Empire. Asians enslaved Asians