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An essay on the slave trade

Note 11 — Front matter

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Leges Wallicæ. Edit. Wotton. lib. iii. p. 206. Hero eadem est potestas in servum suum ac in jumentum, & libr. iv. p. 324. Compensatio pro cæde servi præfinitur nulla, excepto quod pretium ejus domino solvitur prout animalia occisa compensari debent. This is determined in the second chapter to be one mark (libra), if the deceased had been native, but one mark, one hundred and twenty pences if foreigner of birth. See p. 205.

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