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The somewhat complex plan of action, with a good number of alternating character and classical showpieces of choreography, doesn't always make clear the plot's many twists and turns, which involve slave-market commerce, abductions, rescues and reversals of fortune.
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For its scent is commonly used as a test of the soundness or infirmity of slaves even in the slave-market.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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For its scent is commonly used as a test of the soundness or infirmity of slaves even in the slave-market.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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A certain man of rank once entered the slave-market and saw a page being cried for sale; so he bought him and carrying him home, said to his wife, “Take good care of him.”
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The harem and slave-market themes were exploited by various artists.
Kimberly Brooks: First Person Artist: Defiant Iranian Painter Abelina Galustian 2008
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As we were now in the slave-market, it struck me that the sense of insecurity felt by the natives might account for the circumstance that those who have been sold as slaves and freed again, when questioned, profess to like the new state better than their primitive one.
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In talking with my companions over these matters, the idea was suggested that, if the slave-market were supplied with articles of
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Who was it laughed there in the old slave-market — laughed at these white eyeballs glaring from out of the blackness of their dark cattle-pen?
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The wife eloquently defended herself, but this availed little, for these accusations are the means resorted to by some chiefs to secure subjects for the slave-market.
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By this and other unnatural customs, more than by war, is the slave-market supplied.
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