The accomplished musician of the beautiful virgin was an article of taste or a victim of passion.

Thus, what it was the tendency of barbarism to originate, it became the tendency of civilization to increase.
Slavery, then, originated first in conquest and war, piracy, or colonization: secondly, in purchase.

There were two other and subordinate sources of the institution--the first was crime, the second poverty.

If a free citizen committed a heinous offence, he could be degraded into a slave--if he were unable to pay his debts, the creditor could claim his person.

Incarceration is merely a remnant and substitute of servitude.