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| 2 | 199 | The View more quotes about merchant">merchant was chaining his girls on the broad, tiered, cement display shelves. |
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| 2 | 196 | Too, if this license be granted, an exploitable precedent may be set. |
| 2 | 197 | Already there is talk among the merchants in rep-cloth and the lumber and stone merchants". |
| 2 | 198 | We were now passing an open slave market. |
| 2 | 199 | The merchant was chaining his girls on the broad, tiered, cement display shelves. |
| 2 | 200 | One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no more than six inches long; I gathered that she was being disciplined; another girl, a blonde, sat on her shelf with her knees drawn up, her ankles crossed, her arms about her knees; I saw her chain descend from her collar, disappear behind her right leg, and then re-emerge from behind her right thigh, thence running to the ring to which she was attached; another girl, a long-haired brunette, on all fours, faced me, with glazed eyes, seemingly uncomprehendingly regarding the enclosed barge as it passed by in the canal; she had just been chained; it is common to put a woman on all fours for neck chaining; the slaver stepped away from her; neck chaining, incidentally, is common in a market for female slaves, as it is for she-sleen; several girls, standing, awaited their chaining, in turn, on the tiers; I could see the small, incisive brand marks on their left thighs, high, just below their left hips; they were in ankle coffle, their left ankles chained together; more than one of them shaded her eyes against the morning sun; it would be a long day for most of them, chained in the sun, on the hard, granular surfaces of the hot cement shelves. |
| 2 | 201 | "These issues," said Samos, "are subtle and complex". |
| 2 | 202 | The women were chained nude, of course, for that is the way that slave girls are commonly displayed for their sale, particularly in low markets, and, indeed, even in a private sale from one of the purple booths in the courtyard of a rich slaver there will come a time when the slave, even an exquisite, high slave, must put aside her silks and be examined raw, as though she were a common girl. |