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- ORAL HISTORY.
"At that time, there were many slaves. Everyone had slaves. The Fulbe had slaves, smiths had slaves. Even slaves had slaves, really, it is true. Slaves of Fulbe lived in the same compound with the Fulbe. Slaves of smiths lived in the same compound with the smiths. Slaves lived in the same compound with the slaves ... Everyone knew who was a slave of a free-born person, who was a slave of a smith, who was a slave of a slave." (en)
- "One Obedient slave is better
than three hundred sons
for the latter desire their father's death,
the former his master's glory".
Nizam al-Mulk, Book of Politics. (en)
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