Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture, the result of a doctoral thesis written by Rose MacLean at Princeton, focuses on the transformations that freed people underwent during the Principate to integrate fully in Roman society. The book advances the study of the lives of slaves and ex-slaves in the Roman world, following specifically in Weaver’s and Mouritsen’s footsteps. In particular, MacLean’s focus on wealthy and powerful freedmen and their relations with the imperial family cannot but remind us of Weaver’s study on the Familia Caesaris, while her approach to the ancient sources, both epigraphic and literary, resembles that of Mouritsen in his work on freedmen. MacLean’s study is a constructive contribution to the analysis of slavery through the words left behind by those individuals who actually experienced slavery.