Paul du Plessis (@sententiaepauli.bsky.social)

The Law that “Regularized” Thousands of Freed Slaves by Granting Them the Vote in the Roman Republic was not for what we thought For decades, the official history of ancient Rome has repeated the same idea: in the last decades of the Republic, freed slaves – the libertini – were so numerous and so impoverished that any populist... https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/05/the-law-that-regularized-thousands-of-freed-slaves-by-granting-them-the-vote-in-the-roman-republic-was-not-for-what-we-thought/