I think it was the Romans who had the tradition that for one day of the year, the slave-owner and household slaves exchanged places. For some Roman nobles, that turned out to be a rather sobering experience. I think I remember a story about one slave-owner who was castrated by his slaves on their day off because he had a habit of raping his female slaves (I think he did something suitably nasty to the slaves the next day when things were back to normal, though).

- Jake

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