Gender: Male. Usage: Gaius, of Latin origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name. People having the name Gaius are in general originating from France, Greece, United Kingdom. Meaning:
Herodotus was told by his Egyptian guides that it took twenty years for a force of 100,000 oppressed slaves to build the pyramid (with another 10 years to build a stone causeway that connected it to a temple in the valley below). Stones were lifted into position by the use of immense machines.
Slavery did not supply the labor force in the northern colonies, but there were slaves in the North. By the 1740s, Philadelphia was 9 percent slave; New York 18 percent. In total, there were more than 15,000 slaves in New England. There were obvious differences between slavery in the North and South.