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| 15 | 103 | Did it View more quotes about never">never occur to my mistress, or the beast, that I might be stolen, that someone might regard me as worth stealing? My own suspicion in these matters, of course, was that the public chaining of slaves was likely to have less to do with the dangers of slave theft, and more to do with the gratification of masters. |
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| 15 | 100 | The commonly proffered reason for using a slave ring, of course, is to prevent the theft of the slave. |
| 15 | 101 | I realized that I had never been chained to such a ring. |
| 15 | 102 | This produced a certain amount of annoyance. |
| 15 | 103 | Did it never occur to my mistress, or the beast, that I might be stolen, that someone might regard me as worth stealing? My own suspicion in these matters, of course, was that the public chaining of slaves was likely to have less to do with the dangers of slave theft, and more to do with the gratification of masters. |
| 15 | 104 | Masters seem to enjoy chaining their slaves. |
| 15 | 105 | Aside from the indubitable perfection of the custody involved, it is also a ritual of the mastery, in which the master shows the slave that she is a slave, an animal, and a possession, which may be chained at his pleasure. |
| 15 | 106 | She will remain where she has been placed, helplessly so. |