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| 20 | 717 | Most state View more quotes about slaves">slaves in the cities, Ellen had heard, wore gray tunics. |
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| 20 | 714 | "Lift your head," she heard, a female voice. |
| 20 | 715 | "Open your mouth, keep your hands on your thighs". |
| 20 | 716 | Ellen, looking up, found herself before one of the Cosian camp slaves, this one a ravishing blonde, in a brief yellow tunic, with its small vertical, rectangular gray patch, in the vicinity of the left hip, that discreet emblem indicative of state ownership. |
| 20 | 717 | Most state slaves in the cities, Ellen had heard, wore gray tunics. |
| 20 | 718 | This made it easy, at a glance, to distinguish between state slaves and privately owned slaves. |
| 20 | 719 | This distinction might occasionally prove to be of more than simply proprietary or identificatory relevance, for example, if one wished, in short order, to commandeer state slaves, to round them up and transport them, exchange them for goods or prisoners, and so on. |
| 20 | 720 | Accordingly, for various reasons, a uniform color, or such, for state slaves, would doubtless be institutionally judicious. |