Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
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 a federal impost, and places them in a wider historical and economic context.
Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Taxing Freedom offers important insights into the nature and extent of slavery and manumission in Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, the Thessalian fiscal machinery, and the ways by which Thessalian poleis intervened in the economic life of their citizens to secure revenues.
Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Taxing Freedom offers important insights into the nature and extent of slavery and manumission in Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, the Thessalian fiscal machinery, and the ways by which Thessalian poleis intervened in the economic life of their citizens to secure revenues.
Năm:
2013
Nhà xuát bản:
Brill Academic Publishers
Ngôn ngữ:
english
ISBN 10:
9004253890
ISBN 13:
9789004253896
Loạt:
Mnemosyne Supplements 361
File:
PDF, 1.36 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013