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Africa agriculture ancient Anglo-Saxons antiquity Aryan Aryas Assyrian Athens Attica barons became began Beni-Israel bondage bondmen Cæsar captives Carthage Carthaginian centuries chattelhood chattels Christian cities citizens civilization clan colonists communities condition conquered conquerors conquest cultivated degraded disease domestic slavery Egypt Egyptians emancipation emperors empire enslaved epoch estates Europe existed feudal free laborers free population freedom freeholders freemen Gaul German Greece Greek Hebrews Helots homesteads human imperial impoverished increased Italy kholop kidnapping kings lands liberty Libyans Longobards masters moral Mosaic record Nabathean nations nobles number of slaves oligarchs oppression organism origin peasantry peasants Persian Phoenicians political poor primitive prisoners prisoners of war race region republic revolts rich Roman world Rome rural schalks serfdom serfs serfs and chattels servants servitude Shemitic signifies slaveholders slaves Slavi social society soil sold Southern Sparta Spartan subdued Tartars tenants thousand tion tribes various villeins wars whole yeomanry yeomen
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Page 38 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 214 - A freeman so reduced to slavery became again subject to corporal punishment; for it was ordered, that one who had stolen while free, might receive stripes from his prosecutor. It was also ordered, that if, while a wite theow, he stole, he was to be hanged (9).
Page 217 - ... favor of privileged communes. Bremen, Spire, Worms, Vienna, and Ratisbon, in Germany ; Carcassonne, Beziers, Toulouse, and Paris, in France, acquired privileges on this subject at an early period. The ordinance of William the Conqueror, that a residence of any of the servile population of England, for a year and a day, without being claimed, in any city, burgh, walled town, or castle of the King, should entitle them to perpetual liberty, is a specimen of these laws. The earliest publicist who...
Page xiii - ... entail is transmitted equally through the male and through the female line. Meckel adduces an instance of a man with six fingers to each hand and six toes to each foot transmitting the same malformation to his eldest son, whose three sons again were born with precisely the same redundant organisation. Various and manifold as are the forms of monstrosity, some of them recur with such uniformity of type, as to constitute a regular series.
Page 77 - Miiller into four distinct periods ; namely, the Chhandas period, the Mantra period, the Brahmana period, and the Sutra period.
Page 51 - It is indeed a matter of supreme indifference at what time the savages of a continent peopled a neighboring island
Page x - A Manual of Pathological Anatomy. By CARL ROKITANSKY, MD Translated from the German by Edward Sieveking, MD Volume II.
Page 141 - He prohibited the custom of starving to death the old and disabled slaves, who had generally been exposed on an island in the Tiber, upon which was a temple of Esculapius. By the Clandian edict, Bnch exposition was equivalent to emancipation.
Page 121 - Roman citizens : while the final conquest of the Carthaginian empire and of Sicily poured many thousands of slaves into Rome from Africa, from Sicily, and from Spain.
Page 121 - In those early times the slaves were kindly treated ; they were regarded rather as members of the family than as chattels ; they took their meals with their masters, and participated in the sacrifices and worship of the gods.