The Slave wars and Slavery in Roman Society

The primary sources for this topic have all been collected into one thematically organised
narrative:
Shaw, B.D. (2001) Spartacus and the Slave Wars: a brief history with documents
Read pp. 1-14 of the introduction; skim documents 1-26; read carefully documents 27-82.

Slaves and Slavery
Finley, M. I. (1980: London) / (1998: Princeton) Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology.
Hopkins, K (1978) Conquerors and Slaves
Wiedermann, T. (1978) Slavery. New Surverys in the Classics, no. 19; esp. Ch 6 Discontent and
Rebellion, 47-51.
Slave Wars
Bradley, K. R. (1989) Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World 140 B.C. 70 B.C.
Toynbee, A. J (1965) The Insurrections of Slaves in the Post-Hannibalic Age Chap. 9 in
Hannibals Legacy, 2:313-331.
The Sicilian Slave Wars
Green, P (1961) The First Sicilian Slave War, Past and Present 20: 10-29.
Verbrugghe, G. P. (1972) Sicily 210-70 B.C.: Livy, Cicero and Diodorus Transactions and
Proceedings of the American Philological Association 103: 535-59.
The Spartacus War
Doi, M (1984) On the Negotiations between the Roman State and the Spartacus Army Klio 66:
170-174.
Walbank, F.W. (1981) Prelude to Spartacus: The Romans in Southern Thrace, 150-70 B.C. in
Spartacus. Symposium Rebus Spartci Gestis Dedicatum 2050 A. Blagoevgrad, 20-24.IX.1977, pp. 14-27.

Question: What factors created the social and economic conditions favouring
large-scale armed resistance to servitude? To what extent do you think the
slaveholders were aware of these factors?