- A
freedman or
freedwoman is a
person who has been
released from slavery,
usually by
legal means. Historically,
slaves were
freed by
manumission (granted...
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Claudia Acte was a
freedwoman of
ancient Rome who
became a
mistress of the
emperor Nero. She came from Asia
Minor and
might have
become a
slave of the...
- was a
social paradox for a
freedwoman, who
would be
expected to
conform to the
social role of matrona.
While a
freedwoman may be
granted citizenship,...
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their female partners, but one had
married a
freedwoman following his discharge,
while the
other had a
freedwoman of his
family (gens) as a concubina. The...
-
directed by Gary Ross. She pla**** Knight's common-law wife Rachel, a
freedwoman he had a
family with
after the
Civil War. In 2016, Mbatha-Raw appeared...
- successively. She was, at some
point early into her adulthood,
declared a
freedwoman. She
continued to
serve in
domestic positions in
various households of...
- only one
partner remained enslaved, most
often the free
person was a
freedwoman (liberta).
Contubernium institutionalized the slave's
honorable intention...
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Epicharis (Ancient Gr****: Ἐπίχαρις; died AD 65) was an
Ancient Roman freedwoman and a
leading member of the
Pisonian conspiracy against the
emperor Nero...
- the succession."
Sources describe Acte as a
slave girl (Shotter) and a
freedwoman (Champlin and Scullard). Nero or his
moneyers reduced the
weight of the...
-
Colonel John
McGavock for four generations, both as a
house slave and as a
freedwoman. At Carnton, Red**** was the head of the
household staff and also worked...
