This
paper is a study of the contrasts and comparisons of the laws
regarding slavery adopted by the Roman and Germanic
culture. The paper
identifies how the idea of slavery was started and how it developed in both the Roman culture and the Germanic culture. It identifies how in fact, the Dark Ages were considered not so much a time of the end of a culture as they were a time where divergent cultures and peoples were migrating into each other's territories and enforcing the exchange of land and goods all derived from the merging of the Roman and Germanic ideas regarding slavery.