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A Greek Who Gave Up His Freedom in the Eighteenth Century: An Unpublished Document
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 4, Summer 2014
- pp. 429-432
- 10.1353/ecs.2014.0027
- Article
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This is an unpublished document from 1796, regarding a Greek resident in Ţara Românească [Romanian Land] who gave up his freedom and became someone else’s property. This happened following a law introduced in the Romanian Principalities: if a free man married a slave, he became a slave in turn.