Note 29 — Chapter V · CONCLUSION.
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Is it considered a great evil for one’s self or one’s friends to fall into slavery?29 Instances of suicide to escape from slavery30. In many cases it is not slavery as such, but sale to distant regions that is felt as a great calamity. We may mention here the curious phenomenon of people captured and enslaved by the enemy or sold abroad, being on their return despised or even repelled by their former countrymen31.