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An enslaved person in Rome could be formally freed, and many freedmen became Roman citizens.
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Through manumission, owners could grant freedom, and the freed person (libertus) often gained citizenship, though with some restrictions on office-holding. Their freeborn children faced no such limits.
Source: Roman legal sources (the Digest); standard surveys of Roman slavery.
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