If a slave owns a slave...?

Slaves cannot own slaves. However, freed, former slaves can buy and "own" slaves, if you believe that one human being can own another.

That has happened all over the world, throughout centuries and millennia of history, in virtually every country where slavery has existed.

Which means, everywhere.

No ethnic group on the face of the planet has not included both slaves and slave owners.

Just so you know.

In fact slaves could own slaves at least in ancient Rome, and many did. Some slaves were likely to be given gifts of money or even jewellery by their owners and their owners friends or, in the case of gladiator slaves, their own fans..some bought themselves, some bought their own children out of slavery altogether and some purchased slaves of their own. An expert carver of meats, for instance, was highly prized for giving displays of skill at his masters feasts when he would work to music and carve food into different shapes as he went along..he was often rewarded with money in the form of coins being tossed to him or sent to him after the performance by members of the audience. of course his master could claim that money but many did not, they were above taking the tips offered to their slaves..or wished to be thought to be above it. A wealthy man might give gifts of value to his concubine even though he owned her and so on. if he decided to sell her there was no reason why she should not buy herself ow why she should not already own someone else so long as she could afford to keep them. I have never hears of a slave buying their owner from his or her owner..it would have really stretched the laws and produced a household of two people with no rights..bad idea.

Slaves aren't allowed to own slaves because slaves are chattel. That's in the same class as livestock. Cows can't own other cows, and slaves can't own other slaves. Don't get mad at me, I didn't write the rules.