# urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 6, Issue 10 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Feb 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *05 Feb 2005, 18:32* Just to makr it clear, I never intended to suggest Gene Wolfe was in favour of slavery, just that his understanding of it in historical context was deeper than the usual one-sided view. Before the Severian dynasty gave citizenshop to all freemen in the Empire (212 AD),a slave in a good Roman household had more rights and social standing than most free non-Romans. Latro never saw Io as a slave, but that seems to be how she sees herself, albeit a slave who actually chooses her destiny. ===== http://prisoner143.50megs.com/ I am not a number I am a free person! ---