Editing Manumission (section)

==Ancient Greece==
{{Main|Slavery in ancient Greece}}
''A History of Ancient Greece'' explains that in the context of [[Ancient Greece]], affranchisement came in many forms.<ref name="AHOAG">{{Cite book |last1=Orrieux |first1=Claude |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofancient0000orri |title=A History of Ancient Greece |last2=Pantel |first2=Pauline Schmitt |publisher=Wiley |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-631-20308-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofancient0000orri/page/187 187] |quote=Affranchise. |access-date=February 12, 2012 |url-access=registration}}</ref> A master choosing to free his slave would most likely do so only "at his death, specifying his desire in his will". In rare cases, slaves who were able to earn enough money in their labour were able to buy their own freedom and were known as ''choris oikointes''. Two 4th-century bankers, [[Pasion]] and Phormion, had been slaves before they bought their freedom. A slave could also be sold fictitiously to a [[sanctuary]] from where a god could enfranchise him. In very rare circumstances, the city could affranchise a slave. A notable example is that [[Athens]] liberated everyone who was present at the [[Battle of Arginusae]] (406 BC).

Even once a slave was freed, he was not generally permitted to become a citizen, but would become a [[metic]]. The master then became the metic's ''prostatès'' (guarantor or guardian).<ref name=AHOAG/><ref name="freedOCD">{{Cite book |last1=Finley |first1=M.I. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780198661726/page/609 |title=Oxford Classical Dictionary |last2=Treggiari |first2=Susan M. |author2-link=Susan Treggiari |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0198661726 |editor-last=Hornblower |editor-first=Simon |edition=3rd |location=Oxford |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780198661726/page/609 609] |chapter=Freedmen, Freedwomen |author-link=Moses Finley |editor-last2=Spawforth |editor-first2=Antony}}</ref><ref name="OCDslavery">{{Cite book |last=Bradley |first=Keith R. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780198661726 |title=Oxford Classical Dictionary |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |editor-last=Hornblower |editor-first=Simon |edition=3rd |location=Oxford |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780198661726/page/1415 1415–1417] |chapter=Slavery |isbn=978-0-19-866172-6 |editor-last2=Spawforth |editor-first2=Antony |url-access=registration}}</ref> The former slave could be bound to some continuing duty to the master<ref name=freedOCD /> and was commonly required to live near the former master (''paramone'').<ref>[http://www.attalus.org/docs/other/inscr_24.html Manumission of Female Slaves at Delphi] at ''attalus.org''.</ref> Ex-slaves were able to own property outright, and their children were free of all constraint.