OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation · J199
Paper 2, Paper 4
Revise: RomeSome enslaved people gained freedom through manumission. An owner might grant it, or allow a worker to accumulate a peculium that could help purchase freedom. A peculium was money or assets the slave managed with permission, not securely independent property: the owner retained ultimate control.
- Revise: Citizens and citizenship
The legal act of freeing an enslaved person. In Rome, qualifying forms of manumission could also confer citizenship.