Taxing freedom in Thessalian manumission inscriptions /

Taxing freedom in Thessalian manumission inscriptions /

In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, which record payments made to the poleis by manumitted slaves. In this original study the author explores the purpose of and the motivation behind these payments, apparently exacted as...

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Main Author: Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 361.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Taxation > Greece > Thessaly.
Slaves > Emancipation > Greece > Thessaly.
Inscriptions, Greek > Greece > Thessaly.

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Call Number: HJ217 .Z45 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • Taxation and Slavery
  • The Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions
  • Manumission Tax or Publication Fee?
  • Evidence from Other Places
  • The Historical and Economic Background
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • The Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions
  • Indexes.