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galley slave
A galley slave is a slave rowing in a galley. The expression has two distinct meanings: it can refer either to a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar (''French'': galérien), or to a kind of human chattel, often a prisoner of war, assigned to his duty of rowing.
== Antiquity ==
Ancient navies generally preferred to rely on free men to man their galleys. Slaves were usually not put at the oars except in times of pressing manpower demands or extreme emergency, and in some of these cases they would earn their freedom by this. There is no evidence that ancient navies ever made use of condemned criminals as oarsmen,〔With the possible exception of a single instance in Ptolemaic Egypt ().〕 despite the popular image from novels such as ''Ben-Hur''.
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