Free At Last!

Sinclair Bell is Assistant Professor of Art History, Northern Illinois University, USA. Teresa R. Ramsby is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

• Introduction Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USALocating the Grapevine in the Late Republic: Freedom and Communication Pauline Ripat, University of Winnipeg, CanadaThe Face of the Social Climber: Roman Freedmen and Elite Ideology Babara Borg, University of Exeter, UKThe Freedman Economy of Roman Italy Koenraad Verboven, University of Ghent, Belgium ?Deciphering Freedwomen in the Roman Empire Marc Kleijwegt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAFeasting 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, USABetween 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, USAResponse Eleanor W. Leach, Indiana University, USAIndex

... the contributors to Free at Last! all ask interesting and important questions for the study of the role of freed slaves in the Roman Empire.'