Oannes

Jeff Wilson · 22 Mar 2012, 02:56 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:56:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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On 3/21/2012 12:52 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>> Weren't they still subject to arbitrary use and abuse, and sale to other
>> owners without consent?
>
> The former, no. Roman slaves had well defined rights.

The rights to keep their religion didn't seem to prevent them from being 
prostituted or used in blood sports or worked to death in mines, though. 
Not much of chance to pick up enough tips to buy your freedom in the 
mines, either.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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