Integration durch Freilassung zum römischen Bürgerrecht. Die Vermittlung des Bürgerrechtserwerbs durch privaten Rechtsakt und die Eigenart der Regulierung

Roman manumission law gave private individuals the legal power to grant Roman citizenship to slaves. Public control was not necessarily provided for, especially in the case of the practically important manumissio testamento. Restrictions on manumission, such as those of the lex Fufia Caninia or the lex Aelia Sentia, were probably not primarily intended to limit the absolute number of freedmen. Rather, they required the manumissor to examine the slave's ability to integrate into society. On this basis, the Romans were able to successfully integrate a large number of former slaves into their community and move them up the social ladder. Ethnic foreignness was apparently not a significant obstacle.