 Pursuing good relations with the locals, Scipio released the citizens of the town among the 10,000 free men captured and restored their property.The non-citizens and the slaves were recruited as oarsmen and 2,000 craftsmen were made public slaves, who would be freed if they made war equipment for the Romans.Scipio arranged for the hostages, which the Carthaginians had kept to bind tribes to themselves, to be collected by their relatives and friends.