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| 24 | 42 | In the View more quotes about market">market in which I was now displayed we were not required to accost passersby, to call attention to our charms, to wheedle a purchasing, to suggest the delights which might await a buyer, to call out, "Buy me, Master," and so on. |
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| 24 | 39 | If they are permitted to speak, on the shelf, or, more significantly, in the holding areas, a social hierarchy soon materializes, with leaders, and, say, subordinates, lieutenants, so to speak, followed by followers in their rankings, and then followers with their followers, and so on, and then, eventually, drudges, nondescripts, nonentities, outcasts, and such. |
| 24 | 40 | Needless to say, barbarians are generally at the bottom of this social order. |
| 24 | 41 | Markets also differ with respect to the behaviors required of, or allowed to, the slaves. |
| 24 | 42 | In the market in which I was now displayed we were not required to accost passersby, to call attention to our charms, to wheedle a purchasing, to suggest the delights which might await a buyer, to call out, "Buy me, Master," and so on. |
| 24 | 43 | On the other hand, we were much left to our own devices, and when a prosperous looking gentleman or a handsome, dashing fellow was in the vicinity the rings frequently became more active. |
| 24 | 44 | Many are the strategies of the slave to secure for herself a desirable master. |
| 24 | 45 | One might then note smiles, trembling lips, needful looks, piteous attitudes of hope, pleading expressions, and all varieties of mute petition. |