Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

Several factors conspired to merge the status of former slaves and former free farmers into a dependent class of such " coloni " : it was possible to be described as " servus et colonus " , " both slave and " colonus " " .
Several factors conspired to merge the status of former slaves and former free farmers into a dependent class of such " coloni " .