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| 57 | 128 | As a View more quotes about slave">slave, then, she was subject to the claim, and possession, of any free person who might care to make such a claim. |
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| 57 | 125 | To be sure, I did not know her antecedents. |
| 57 | 126 | In her village she had been one of Eito's work slaves. |
| 57 | 127 | He had unclaimed her, before Nodachi. |
| 57 | 128 | As a slave, then, she was subject to the claim, and possession, of any free person who might care to make such a claim. |
| 57 | 129 | To be sure, few knew her to be unclaimed. |
| 57 | 130 | We had left her with Ichiro, that she might not compromise certain efforts upon which we might venture. |
| 57 | 131 | "The interests and appetites of the peasants, as I understand it," I said, "were not to be fully satisfied by the mere appropriation of jewelry, clothing, and such". |