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Author Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel.

Title Not wholly free : the concept of manumission and the status of manumitted slaves in the ancient Greek world / by R. Zelnick-Abramovitz.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 385 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 266
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 266. 0169-8958
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356) and indexes.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Slavery and Freedom: Definitions and Approaches; Chapter 2: Manumission: Diversity and Similarity; Chapter 3: Manumittors and Manumitted Slaves; Chapter 4: The Act of Manumission; Chapter 5: Laws and Legal Actions; Chapter 6: The Reality of Freedom; Conclusions; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources; General Index.
Summary Based on a thorough investigation of the literary and epigraphic sources, this comprehensive study presents Greek manumission as a form of social relations, rooted in concepts of freedom and dependence and reflected by the terminology and the conditions of manumission.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Greece -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Greece.
History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Slavery -- Greece -- History.
Slavery.
Freed persons -- Greece -- History.
Freed persons.
Freed persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Greece -- History.
Freed persons -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
Civilization.
Chronological Term To 146 B.C
To 146 B.C.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel. Not wholly free. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 (DLC) 2005050141
ISBN 9004145850 (alkaline paper)
9789004145856 (alkaline paper)
9781429427302 (electronic book)
1429427302 (electronic book)
1433704153
9781433704154