London : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.

xii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby -- The 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 -- The 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.

Freedmen -- Rome -- History.

Freedmen -- Rome -- Social conditions.

Slaves -- Emancipation -- Rome.

Slavery -- Rome -- History.

Rome -- Civilization.

Bell, Sinclair.

Ramsby, Teresa R

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