Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Roman History at King's College London. He has published widely on Roman history, including local politics, Pompeii and Ostia, freedmen, Latin epigraphy, Roman Italy, and Republican politics. His other books include Elections, Magistrates and Municipal Elite: Studies in Pompeian Epigraphy (1988), Italian Unification: A Study in Ancient and Modern Historiography (1998), and Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (2001).
1. Introduction: approaching Roman freedmen
2. Macula servitutis: slavery, freedom and manumission
3. Freedmen and their patrons
4. The power and status of freedmen
5. The practice of manumission at Rome
6. The freedman in the Roman economy
7. The freedman (and his son) in Roman public life
8. Being a Roman freedman: the identity and experiences of former slaves.
