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Title Free at last! : the impact of freed slaves on the Roman empire / edited by Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby.

Publication Info. London, UK : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby -- Face of the social climber : Roman freedmen and elite ideology / Barbara E. Borg -- Locating the grapevine in the late republic : freedmen and communication / Pauline Ripat -- 'Reading' the freed slave in the Cena trimalchionis / Teresa Ramsby -- Freedman economy of Roman Italy / Koenraad Verboven -- Deciphering freedwomen in the Roman Empire / Marc Kleijwegt -- Feasting the dead together : household burials and the social strategies of slaves and freed persons in the early principate / Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho -- 'Saintly souls' : white teachers' advocacy and instruction of Greek and Latin to African American freedmen / Michele Valerie Ronnick -- Response essay : what has Pliny to say? / Eleanor Winsor Leach.
Summary How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into society, and what was their social position and status? What contributions did they make to the society that had once - sometimes brutally - repressed them? This collection builds on recent dynamic work on Roman freedmen, the contributors drawing upon a rich and varied body of evidence - visual, literary, epigraphic and archaeological - to elucidate the impact of freed slaves on Roman society and culture amid the shadow of their former servitude. The contributions span the pe.
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Subject Freed persons -- Rome -- History.
Freed persons -- Rome -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Rome.
Slavery -- Rome -- History.
Rome -- Civilization.
Rome (Empire)
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Bell, Sinclair.
Ramsby, Teresa R.
Other Form: Print version: Free at last! London, UK : Bristol Classical Press, 2012 9781853997518 (OCoLC)707962619
ISBN 9781472502957 (electronic book)
1472502957 (electronic book)
1299051650 (e-book)
9781299051652 (e-book)
9781853997518
185399751X