Social - legal status of marginal people in the seventeenth – eighteenth centuries. the slave gypsies

If we were to write history in a traditional approach, the gypsies would not be remembered, because it would be a history seen as that of those who were at the center of the events. However, they were a permanence of of our history, having the status of slaves. They were a marginal element, having no impact on social development, being mentioned only in terms of interest in the picturesqueness of their lives.
Slavery as an institution, as a social state, is not defined and is not the subject of a separate chapter in the legislation of the seventeenth century. Its content can be recomposed by putting together the rules regarding those who share it. These can be found throughout the codes of laws belonging to the mentioned epoch, fixing the obligations and civil rights of the slaves, but also those related to the criminal field.
The study aims to highlight the situation of gypsy slaves, in all respects, presenting types of legislative crimes that concern them both as an injured party and as injuring.