Word: insidership
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...individual owner. Slaves were expected to labor, but their main function was not, or not only, economic. More important, as a member of a kin group, albeit one that might be exploited or sacrificed, a slave had status in society and could begin to acquire some elements of "insidership" almost from the start. Slave status in most societies was in fact eroded over time and down the generations, so that the individual or his descendants became less and less marginalized ? or gradually entered into full membership of the group. None of this was true of slavery in the Americas...
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