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self-purchase. A fugitive slave is a person who escaped enslavement by fleeing. Rome differed from Greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become plebeian...

common for older slaves to be given freedom. Legislation under the early Roman Empire put limits on the number of slaves that could be freed in wills (lex...

admitted in slave–free pairs. There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S...

"contentment" was shocked by seeing that slaves would risk so much to be free. Afterward, when some freed slaves had been settled at Bermuda, slaveholders...

crime to own a slave until 2007. Although many slaves have escaped or have been freed since 2007, as of 2012[update], only one slave owner had been sentenced...

owned slaves working in those businesses. "Koger emphasizes that it was all too common for freed slaves to become slaveholders themselves." Some free black...

of African slaves freed by setting foot on French soil were recorded such as the example of a Norman slave merchant who tried to sell slaves in Bordeaux...

low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with few opportunities for advancement and little chance of freedom. Skilled and educated slaves—including...

slaves shared their humanity, and evidence that slaves did not belong in the category of the "Other".[citation needed] Sexual exploitation of slaves by...

Emancipation Proclamation authorized freed slaves to "be received into the armed service of the United States", former slaves who escaped from plantations or...

many freed slaves and descendants of slaves became slave owners. Eduardo França Paiva estimated that about one-third of slave owners were either freed slaves...

States, owned more than 600 slaves during his adult life. Jefferson freed two slaves while he lived, and five others were freed after his death, including...

as legal slaves only those non-Muslims who were imprisoned or bought beyond the borders of Islamic rule, or the sons and daughters of slaves already in...

American Civil War to provide temporary housing and assistance to the freed slaves. In order to house the large numbers of formerly-enslaved African Americans...

(580–640), freed in the 6th century. He converted to Islam and was Muhammad's muezzin. Bill Richmond (1763–1829), born in America, was freed and became...

American Revolution. Despite their circumstances, some North Carolina slaves and freed slaves distinguished themselves as artisans, soldiers during the Revolution...

being freed, as they were required to register for citizenship. This documentation was not seen as proof of identity, however, and many freed slaves were...

state did not become free, but remained slaves. Though three million Confederate slaves were eventually freed as a result of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation...

A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...

owned slaves at some point in their lives; of these, eight owned slaves while in office. Ten of the first twelve American presidents owned slaves, the...