History Main / SlaveLiberation

Examples are sorted by [[InternalSubtrope type]] of SlaveLiberation.

* This is the ultimate aim of Karl Cullinane and his friends in the GuardiansOfTheFlame series. He and his friends are roleplayers brought to a D&D-style fantasy world in the bodies of their characters and ultimately pledge to drive slavery out of their new home.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''CitizenOfTheGalaxy''. In the BackStory, Colonel Baslim stormed a raider's compound and freed the crew of a Free Trader starship who had been captured to be made into slaves.

* ''QuantumLeap'': Sam leaps into his own great-grandfather, who was a union officer in TheAmericanCivilWar, and comes across a SouthernBelle whose slave is secretly running a leg on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad Underground Railroad,]] the (great?) grandfather of MartinLutherKingJr.

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' have a lot of missions about rescuing slaves.

* In AttackOfTheClones, Anakin Skywalker learns that his mother, Shmi, was bought by Clieg Lars, who immediately freed and married her. This is detailed in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse novel, "Tatooine Ghost".

* NeverwinterNights: ''Hordes of the underdark'' give you to buy a slave, you can free her by sending her with a message to your allies. Any other option results in her death.

* ''{{Spartacus}}''

* Before the more famous {{Spartacus}}, there were two other big slave revolts in Ancient Rome. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Servile_War here]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Servile_War here]].

* In TheBible, Moses & God use extreme force to coerce the Pharaoh to release the Hebrew slaves, up to and including killing every firstborn of the oppressors in the country. Despite all this, the Pharaoh keeps stubbornly refusing to the point where God basically stops giving him second chances and starts actively making the Pharaoh even stubborner, to get glory for Himself.

* {{Discworld}} {{Golem}}s have a unique system whereby the free ones collectively save up their wages to buy the one who are still owned their freedom.

* ''{{Fallout 2}}'' and ''3'' are unique in that you can either help the slaves against their aggressors, or you can ''become'' the slaver and sell certain people off for caps.

* The ''{{Fallout}} 3 DLC'' expansion "The Pitt" is based entirely around starting a slave revolt scenario by getting yourself enslaved and undermining the operation from within.

* In ''OrderOfTheStick'', the order in general and the Haley & Elan duo in particular have taken up slave liberation sidequests. One of them ends... poorly.

There are three ways to do this:
* A: [[SlaveRescue Rescue someone else's slaves]], usually by force,
* B: [[ReleaseYourSlaves Free some slaves you already own]] or [[BuyTheirFreedom you bought specifically to free them]].

Examples are sorted by [[InternalSubtrope type]] of SlaveLiberation.

SlaveLiberation is a likely result of MadeASlave, but if it's combined with HappinessInSlavery or PropertyOfLove it easily devolve into ActivistFundamentalistAntics.

* [[MightyWhitey Tarl]] does this in the film version of ''{{Gor}}''. This is not at all complicated, since the films really doesn't have anything to do with the books they claim to be based on.
* The first we see of Conan as an adult in the 2011 reboot of ''ConanTheBarbarian'' is him leading a raid to liberate a bunch of slaves from some pirates. The fact that a solid chunk of the slaves are [[FanserviceExtra topless, nubile women]] is, of course, just a happy coincidence.

* ''TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn''. Huck helps Jim escape, sometimes referred to as "stealing himself," and Jim has plans to make money and then go back & buy his family for their freedom.

* In ''Literature/TheRomanMysteries'' Flavia frees her slave girl, Nubia.
* The freek Hork-Bajir in ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' regularly raided Yeerk projects to capture Hork-Bajir controllers and starve out the Yeerks inside them.

* In ''SlaveMaker'', the protagonist is portrayed as righteous when doing this to other slaveowners, while NPC:s are portrayed as ActivistFundamentalistAntics when doing this to the protagonist: Those other slaveowners are portrayed as truly abusive and in some cases monstrous, while the game keep waving a ConsentFlag for the protagonist.
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' have a lot of missions about rescuing slaves.

* ''{{Fallout}} 2'' and ''3'' are unique in that you can either help the slaves against their aggressors, or you can ''become'' the slaver and sell certain people off for caps.
** See also SlaveRevolt below.

* Batman and Kamandi do this in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Last Bat on Earth!".

* In the third {{Gor}} novel, ''Priest-Kings of Gor'', Tarl almost revolutionizes Gorean society to outlaw slavery... but doesn't quite get around to doing it. (Gor being Gor, Tarl eventually realizes that [[HappinessInSlavery slavery is a good thing]]).

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* The Romans sometimes used to free slaves (manumission) and it became such a social institution that they developed a whole legal code around how it could be done, the legal status of a freed slave and his descendants and so on. Of course, their motivation was not a belief that slavery was wrong. Often manumission happened because it was possible for a slave to buy his own freedom from his savings, so it provided an incentive for them to work hard.

* The early history of UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} has many early Muslims freeing their slaves and sometimes even buying other peoples' slaves for the purposes of freeing them (the Prophet and his friend/successor Abu Bakr were particularly noted for this, being successful merchants). It is also forbidden for Muslim to enslave Muslim, so it wasn't terribly uncommon for Muslims to free their slaves by allowing them to convert.

* The first two free Hork-Bajir in ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' were runaways, prompted by the [[EldritchAbomination Ellimist]]

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* RobertHeinlein's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_of_the_galaxy Citizen of the Galaxy]]''. In the BackStory, Colonel Baslim stormed a raider's compound and freed the crew of a Free Trader starship who had been captured to be made into slaves.

** [[FairForItsDay It helps to remember that if the Romans didn't see slavery as vile as we do, its at least partly because they viewed the institution in radically different ways than we do]]. To modern Americans, slavery is an exclusive, racialized matter; to the Romans(and other ancient peoples) is was something that could befall anybody.

* ''{{Fallout}} 3'' is unique in that you can either help the slaves (escaped and otherwise) against their aggressors, or you can ''become'' the slaver and sell certain people off for caps.

* In TheBible, Moses & The Lord use extreme force to coerce the Pharaoh to release the Hebrew slaves, up to and including killing every firstborn in the country. (Made a bit more complicated by The Lord actively "hardening the Pharaoh's heart", Ex 4:21, 7:4-5, so he won't release the slaves, thus making the struggle more interesting.)

* In ''UncleTomsCabin'', the DecoyProtagonist is a NeutralGood white man who decide to set his slaves free - but then die before he get around to it, and the slaves suffer terribly under their new owner.

* Batman and Kamandi do this in the ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Last Bat on Earth!".

* The premise of ''LesbianSpiderQueensOfMars'' is that the titular Queen's harem has launched a coup and she needs to web her girls back up again. [[spoiler: Overlaps with Type 1, since a {{Yandere}} PsychoLesbian ex-girlfriend is actually behind the rebellion.]]