Could Rome Have Risen Without Slavery?

Rome was rising to power fast. They had just about everything: People, land, good government, but one major thing that helped them was slavery. Slaves were owned by the Romans to do tasks that were needed to be done. If the Romans did not have slaves they could not have risen to power.
Romans relied on their slaves on too much to do their work for them (Madden). The slaves that the Romans owned were mostly prisoners from war that they took back with them (Madden). Infants born by a slave were also automatically considered a slave (Madden).For work, the Romans relied on the male slaves to do the hard work, like mining, unloading docks, and in building (Madden). The female slaves were used for cooking, weaving, and cloth making (Madden). With the slaves doing this work, the Romans could focus on doing their own thing to help them rise to become more powerful.
There were, however, problems with the slaves that could have been avoided if they were fixed in the right way. The Romans obtained slaves after Carthage collapsed (Diodorus). From getting the slaves, they immediately branded them to make them theirs (Diodorus).. As a result of this, the Servile War broke out (Diodorus). Some other causes for the revolt were the following: slaves were granted limited food and clothing, and they were being beaten for the work they did (Diodorus). If the Romans were nice and kind to their slaves for doing the work they are doing for them, the slaves would have been more willing to work. Instead, the Romans beat the slaves and did not give them a sufficient amount of items to survive well with. As a result, the slaves revolted and killed their masters to get away from all the hardships (Diodorus). The revolts affected the kingships greatly. One king, Eunus, killed slaves that were a part of a revolt (Diodorus). The king should have tried to figure out their problems instead of executing them. The Romans treated the slaves horribly.
Romans were also not fair to their slaves that they owned. It shows in the story of “The murder of Pedanius Secundus”. It says, “…One of his slaves killed…either because he was denied freedom when he had paid his agreed price or…”( Tacitus) It goes on to tell us what the senators think of the death. It shows us, though, that other slave masters did this act to their slaves that they owned. It is unfair and unjust. If the Romans were trustworthy to their slaves and offered them their freedom then they would have been more willing to help the Roman that they are working under and the Romans would not have to deal with worrying about the slave revolts.
The Romans were cruel and nasty to the slaves that they inherited to the war. The slaves caused multiple revolts that the Romans then had to deal with. If the Romans treated the slaves like human beings there would not have been as many problems.