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Freeing slaves in ancient Rome / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In ancient Roman law, manumissio was the act of releasing a slave from the master's control. Manumission could occur either through formal legal procedures, resulting in the freedperson receiving citizenship; or informally, which resulted in a more legally ambiguous status. The possibility of manumission with a path to citizenship was a distinguishing feature of slavery in ancient Rome.
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Although people enslaved for manual labor had little or no hope of manumission, for slaves in the upper echelon of skills and responsibilities—such as artisans, business managers, and "intellectual slaves"[1]— manumission was a more realistic prospect. These slaves most often were freed in the master's will or bought their liberty through their earnings. Slaves who served the emperor's household or the imperial bureaucracy were regularly freed in their early thirties with considerable wealth and influence.