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suppose you're a rich roman (AD250) and you decide you're really really fond of one of your slave children and you want to have them educated and made into a normal free roman, like as if they were your own child (legitimate child). how unusual would this be? to what extent is it legally possible?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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