sentences:  After manumission, a slave who had belonged to a Roman citizen enjoyed not only passive freedom from ownership, but active political freedom "(libertas)", including the right to vote.A slave who had acquired "libertas" was known as a "libertus" ("freed person", feminine "liberta") in relation to his former master, who was called his or her patron "(patronus)".As a social class, freed slaves were "liberti", though later Latin texts used the terms "libertus" and "libertini" interchangeably.