From social death to social rebirth: law, slavery and freedom in Classical Rome
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Rome, Roman law, Slavery, ManumissionAbstract
In this paper, the problems about slavery and liberty in Roman law are discussed. The problems in the recognition of a slave’s humanity while stablishing a juridical notion of thing – res. It was determined as time frames the importance of the topic about slavery in the Italian Peninsula until their decline. The research happened in various romans juridical fronts: the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulpiano and the Justiano’s Digest. Various historiographical bases were taken notice as academical references. The methodology consisted in the confrontation between juridical opinions registered in the chosen fonts and interpretations collected in bibliographical platforms.
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