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| 19 | 416 | The View more quotes about major">major reason for cropping the hair of field slaves, both male and female, and certain other forms of work slaves, is to protect them from parasites. |
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| 19 | 413 | Indeed, in most cities, long hair is almost universal with slaves. |
| 19 | 414 | There are many things that can be done with such hair. |
| 19 | 415 | Not only can it please the master by its beauty and feel, but it can serve to secure the slave, to gag her, and so on. |
| 19 | 416 | The major reason for cropping the hair of field slaves, both male and female, and certain other forms of work slaves, is to protect them from parasites. |
| 19 | 417 | For a similar reason the bodies of the women transported on slave ships are almost always shaved, completely. |
| 19 | 418 | Even then it is common, shortly after debarkation, and this is required by the rules of many port authorities, to subject them to an immersion in slave dip. |
| 19 | 419 | "Whose fields are these?" I asked, looking about. |