- his
dependents as freedmen. It was up to the
master to free a slave.
Freedpersons, or liberti, were ex-slaves who were freed.: 186
Although free, many...
-
system of slavery,
resulting in a
significant and
influential number of
freedpersons in
Roman society. At all
levels of employment, free
working people, former...
-
awarded to
Roman citizens who had
produced at
least three children or to
freedpersons who had
produced at
least four. The
privilege resulted from the Lex Papia...
-
Epitaphs indicate that both
partners in
concubinatus might also be
freedpersons, for
reasons that are not
entirely clear. A
slave lacked the
legal personhood...
-
acknowledging a
commitment to
their partner. However, both
partners might be
freedpersons, with the
benefits of
concubinatus over
marriage for
people of this status...
-
demonstrates a
different experience from
their male counterparts. As
freedpersons were not seen as
having a
distinct civic identity from
their patrons...
-
routine copying of m****cripts was a task for
educated slaves or for
freedpersons who
worked independently in bookshops.
Books were a
favored gift for...
- uneman****ted son in
matters of
family law but held only the
rights of
freedpersons otherwise.
Legislation that more
closely regulated the
varied statuses...
- āmanuēnsis, “secretary”, from ab-, “from” + m****, “hand”) was a
slave or
freedperson who
provided literary and
secretarial services such as
taking dictation...
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whose status can be
identified are slaves,
though liberti and
libertae (
freedpersons) are also frequent.
Although a
slave lacked legal standing to contract...
