enforced. The dividing line between slaves and free persons was not always sharply drawn or easily recognized. A slave could own one or more slaves; he could, within certain limits, possess private property. He could work side by side with his owner or with other free persons. Often a reasonably rich man’s slave was better off than a poor citizen in possession of all civil rights. Also there were forms of a person’s legal status in which elements of total dependence and of freedom were mixed.4 In
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