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** Doctors in ancient Rome were often former slaves, whose "owners" had paid for their medical training. (Any resemblance to the plot of [[Northern Exposure]] is presumably a coincidence.)
** Many close bonds were formed between masters and their slaves. Often, slaves in wealthy households were very well cared for and lived far better than free lower class citizens. It was not uncommon for a Roman patrician's dying wish to be for their slave's freedom.
*** What was often the case was that a slave would be a patricians beloved tutor or nannie in youth or have a similar relationship but be owned by the family head. Thus he could not actually free the slave until he gets the estate. This connects to another social problem in Rome that sometimes elder patricians were a long time dying and left their heirs in something of a state of dependency.
** According to one version of the story [[Four-Star Badass|Scipio Africanus']] father had his life saved in battle by a slave. Another version is that it was Scipio himself. [[Take a Third Option|one possibility of course]] is that they did it together.
* A similar example is that of some Roman non-citizens, who would voluntarily become slaves, since after they are freed, they would be granted a portion of a citizen's rights as freedmen and their children would automatically become full citizens. All this only refers to the house slaves.
* Then there were those who found themselves a master and ''pretended'' to be their slaves while they were really free. Make of that what you will.
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* Many types of domesticated animals, if set loose, will try to find their way back home even if it's a factory farm or some other borderline abusive place. Gerald Durrell, after experiencing a massive return of animals he was trying to let go, remarked that it'd be nice if those "twee individuals" could see this.
* As discussed in the "TV" section above, quite a few slaves in ancient Rome might have felt this way. A notable example was Tiro, slave to Cicero. He was his master's right hand and the reason any of Cicero's speeches have been preserved until this very day. Tiro invented a form of short-hand writing, taking notes in court or in the senate and transcribing the speech later. He survived his release (and the suicide of his master shortly after) for many years and died at around 90.
* Acceptance by console gamers of the [[PC vs. Console|limits of video game consoles]], particularly the limited selection of games outside the latest mainstream releases and the lack of [[Game Mod]]s.{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
* In a society where there is no meaningful concept of freedom([[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|naming names on that subject is probably unwise]] although there were certainly societies with no ''grammatical'' concept of freedom) being a slave can cease to have a meaning as everyone is a slave to someone and so what? Of course in such cases the distinction between "slave" and client (I.E Tom Hagen is Michael Coreleone's ''Client''. A hooker being pimped by one of Michael Coreleone's fellow gangsters is his ''slave'') might fade until it is unrecognizable.
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