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| 38 | 253 | Needless to say this View more quotes about considerably">considerably depresses the market, and it is, accordingly, often the case that these coffles must be broken up and widely dispersed, or marched far afield, sometimes better than a thousand pasangs, to more favorable markets. |
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| 38 | 250 | Almost every female slave desires a private master, and, too, hopes to be his only slave. |
| 38 | 251 | The slaves to the east would be bound and coffled. |
| 38 | 252 | I had seen coffles, and sometimes more than one such linkage, after the fall of cities, which contained fifteen hundred to two thousand women. |
| 38 | 253 | Needless to say this considerably depresses the market, and it is, accordingly, often the case that these coffles must be broken up and widely dispersed, or marched far afield, sometimes better than a thousand pasangs, to more favorable markets. |
| 38 | 254 | Sometimes too, the women are kept off the market, sometimes for months, while their owners wait, hoping for better prices. |
| 38 | 255 | During such times they are exercised and trained, which increases their value. |
| 38 | 256 | Slavers often buy such women in lots, for pittances, on speculation. |