Canada
Canada
Liberia, Africa
Slaves were freed or manumitted for various reasons, including moral or religious beliefs, legal obligations, economic considerations, political pressure, or as a reward for loyalty or service. Sometimes, manumission was used as a strategic move to gain favor or support in society.
A slave who had been manumitted or otherwise released was a "freedman."
Since slaves were considered chattel, they were distributed like any other property - unless the owner manumitted them in his or her will. If they manumitted them, they became officially free. Sometimes they would stay on as paid servants and workers for whoever took over the deceased person's property, other times they would clear out and head for territory where slavery was no longer legal lest they be forced back into slavery by some unscrupulous person who could take advantage of the fact that most of them were kept illiterate and consequently would have difficulty proving that they were free.
Why should they? The penalties for rebellion were gruesome and harsh. Even though their lives were restricted, most slaves were content to wait until they could buy their freedom or their master manumitted them. Rebellion was simply too big of a risk.
Since the court found against him, the case had no immediate effect. A few years later however he and his family were manumitted.
Slaves did not want anything for the leaders of the Roman Republic. They could not demand or expect anything. They had no rights. They were someone's property. They were just purchased assets. The most they could hope for was manumission (emancipation). Roman masters often manumitted their slaves.
Rhode Island abolished participation in the slave trade in 1774, but did not end the ownership of slaves in the state until after 1784. At that time, the state enacted a "gradual emancipation" under which children born into slavery were freed upon reaching adulthood. Slaves born before the 1784 law took effect remained slaves (unless manumitted by their owners); there were still slaves in RI into the mid-1800s.
Cape slaves in South Africa were manumitted through various means, including being released through a formal process by their owners, being self-purchased through savings or negotiations, or through gaining their freedom through legal means such as laws and decrees that abolished slavery. Additionally, some slaves were able to secure their freedom through acts of bravery or rebellion.
A freedman in the ancient world was a former slave who had been manumitted and gained free status. Since the period you asked about is during the imperial period, the Imperial freedman would be former slave of the state or imperial slave who had gained his or her freedom. such a person would not be likely to have citizan status but would have the same status as a free born provincial although citizanship in some special cases could have been confered on a freed slave.