#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

5180.839 - 5203.666 Gregory Aldrete

If they earned a certain amount of money, X amount of money, they could then buy their own freedom from the master. So this was your incentive to work harder if you were trained, let's say, as a doctor. I work really hard. I can buy myself out of slavery. Or a lot of masters would free their slaves and their wills. So when they died, they would say, I manumit this slave and that slave.