| Abstract: | In summary, the author demonstrates that 1) over time and in varying degrees, a few people of slave ancestry came to be closely associated with the free-born members of the household. Most directly involved were the slave women who married or were concubines of freeborn men. Their children were free and grew up holding the beliefs and values of the freeborn worldview; 2) some slaves born into the household were adopted and raised as part of the freeborn household. They or their descendants might inherit land and slaves just as freeborn lineage members would have: 3) some slaves were freed and remained attached through their work to the household; 4) some slaves became dependent on the freeborn family in their old age in the absence of other kin. Notes. |
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