Free At Last!

Introduction
Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Locating the Grapevine in the Late Republic: Freedom and Communication
Pauline Ripat, University of Winnipeg, Canada

The Face of the Social Climber: Roman Freedmen and Elite Ideology
Babara Borg, University of Exeter, UK

The Freedman Economy of Roman Italy
Koenraad Verboven, University of Ghent, Belgium ?

Deciphering Freedwomen in the Roman Empire
Marc Kleijwegt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Feasting the Dead Together: Household Burials and the Social Strategies of Slaves and Freed Persons in the Early Principate
Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

'Reading' the Freed Slave in the Cena Trimalchionis
Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Between Fame and Infamia: The Image and Influence of Roman Charioteers
Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois University, USA

'Saintly Souls:' White Teachers' Instruction of Greek and Latin to African American Freedmen
Michele Ronnick, Wayne State University, USA

Response
Eleanor W. Leach, Indiana University, USA

Index