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| 7 | 15 | It is View more quotes about often">often safer to be a slave than a free person. |
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| 7 | 12 | How vulnerable we were, as slaves! But, had we been free women I did not doubt but what we would have been abandoned, left in the house, to perish in the flames. |
| 7 | 13 | The marks on our thighs, our collars, had saved us. |
| 7 | 14 | We had been saved, but only as animals. |
| 7 | 15 | It is often safer to be a slave than a free person. |
| 7 | 16 | Who, for example, would bother slaying a tarsk, or a kaiila? Instead, one would herd them, or rope them. |
| 7 | 17 | One would appropriate them. |
| 7 | 18 | It is for such a reason that free women, trapped in a burning city, a fallen city, being sacked, will not unoften steal collars from their girls, and fasten them on their own necks, hoping to be taken for slaves, to be spared as slaves. |