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| The Liberation of Free Persons condemned to labor in the Women's Apartments, or to Servitude.
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Chapter XXXIV.—The Liberation of Free Persons condemned to labor
in the Women’s Apartments, or to Servitude.
“Lastly, if any have wrongfully been deprived of the
privileges of noble lineage, and subjected to a judicial sentence which
has consigned them to the women’s apartments3187
| 3187 In the Greek houses there were separate suites for men and women.
Compare article Domus, in Smith, Dict. of Gr. and Rom.
Antiq. | and to the linen making, there to
undergo a cruel and miserable labor, or reduced them to servitude for
the benefit of the public treasury, without any exemption on the ground
of superior birth; let such persons, resuming the honors they had
previously enjoyed, and their proper dignities, henceforward exult in
the blessings of liberty, and lead a glad life. Let the free man,3188
| 3188 [That is, the free subject of inferior rank, accustomed to labor
for his subsistence, but not to the degradation of slavery.] | too, by some injustice and
inhumanity, or even madness, made a slave, who has felt the sudden
transition from liberty to bondage, and ofttimes bewailed his unwonted
labors, return to his family once more a free man in virtue of this our
ordinance, and seek those employments which befit a state of freedom;
and let him dismiss from his remembrance those services which he found
so oppressive, and which so ill became his condition.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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