freedmanship en · NOUN
Etymology
From freedman + -ship.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The condition of being a freedman.
The third class of freedmanship (dedititia libertas) had long been obsolete when it was formally abolished by Justinian, A.D. 530, Cod. 7, 5.
1890, Edward Poste (tr.), Elements of Roman law, London, UK: Claredon Press, translation of original by Gaius, page 321:'Freedmanship' should not be reduced to an epiphenomenon of slavery, but be acknowledged as a relation of structural importance for the Italian economy.
2014, Koenraad Verboven, “The Freedman Economy of Roman Italy”, in Sinclair Bell, Teresa Ramsby, editors, Free At Last!: The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire, page 88: