| Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:58:29 -0400
| From: Douglas Seay <douglas.seay_at_marconi.com>
| Subject: Re: Heortling hitches
|
| > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:16:43 GMT
| > From: donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk (Donald R. Oddy)
| > If a thrall will be freed after giving birth to the child of a freeman,
| > that's a hell of an incentive for her to have sex with him - so much
| > so that the clan will have to keep replenishing the stock every couple
| > of generations.
|
| That isn't how I understand Heortling thralldom to work. Everyone is
| born free, including the children of thralls. All thralls are "first
| generation" so the stock has to be replenished each generation.
The practice of freeing a female slave after she becomes pregnant is a
Pentan practice, IIRC.
Guy