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Publications [#335316] of Joshua D. Sosin

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  1. Sosin, JD, Manumission with paramone: Conditional freedom? (January, 2015)
    (last updated on 2024/03/29)

    Abstract:
    A common view holds that slaves freed on condition of paramone were juridical chimeras, legally half-free, half-slave. This paper argues that this view is based on a misunderstanding of the Greek sources, mainly epigraphic; that the intermediate or hybrid juridical state of conditional freedom is a modern invention; that the evidence for manumission in the Greek world suggests overwhelmingly that polities constructed liberty and slavery as a binary pair, rather than poles on a spectrum.


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