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I suspect the reason for this division in the tent, by means of the canvas partition, was less to protect the slaves from roving, appraising eyes, for slaves are accustomed, as other animals, to being openly regarded, than to minimize the possibility of a particular slave being identified, even casually or accidentally. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 42, Sentence #59)

Interestingly, there was, within the tent, a canvas partition which separated the main portion of the tent, in a linear fashion, from the area where the slaves were housed. This was unusual in a slave tent, for in such a tent, given the inspection, the buying and selling, and such, of the slaves, the slaves are usually publicly exhibited, as on a slave shelf, on platforms, in cages, in cells open to the street, and such. In such venues one does not have the privacy available in a professional slave house, or in the purple booths, admittance into which is restricted. I suspect the reason for this division in the tent, by means of the canvas partition, was less to protect the slaves from roving, appraising eyes, for slaves are accustomed, as other animals, to being openly regarded, than to minimize the possibility of a particular slave being identified, even casually or accidentally. A consequence of this arrangement, of course, was that the slaves had no clear understanding of what had occurred on the other side of the partition. As mentioned earlier, there were some forty slaves in the tent. They were in a single line, held on a common chain, anchored at each end to a large ring fixed in a heavy, trunklike piling, of which a foot or so was visible above the ground. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 42)