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[[File:Sigring.png|alt=Two neck rings on a workbench, one plain iron and one worked silver, each with an engraved emblem plate at the front and a small brass clockwork clasp at the back, beside a maker's tools and a pattern ledger.|thumb|300x300px|A Sigring. The sigil faces front; the clockwork release is at the back and opens under two hands.]]
Slavery is lawful in every city of [[Teraell]]. A slave is property — not a person with reduced rights, not a servant under a hard contract, but property in the same legal category as a Dorath or a house. A slave holds no [[The Oathbond|Oathbond]] and wears her owner's at her throat. These pages describe the institution as the world practices it; they name and summarize, and do not depict. For the argument over whether any of it should exist, see [[The Contested Ground]].

The Bible, and these pages, say "she" of slaves and "he" of owners because that is the common case; neither is a rule. Men are enslaved, women own slaves, and anyone with the money can buy one.

== The institution ==
* [[Slavery]] — what a slave is; what she owns, cannot do, and can do
* [[Sigring]] · [[Koeler]] — the collar and the mark
* [[Becoming a Slave]] — submission, debt, sentence, Frontier claiming, war, piracy, the arriving stranger; the first hour; when it was a mistake
* [[Manumission]] — the completion of the circle, why an owner frees her, why she may refuse, what she gets back

== Service ==
* [[Address and Titles]] — Jor, Moejor, Jan, Daes; names, gender, and the formal register; speech and refusal
* [[Commands and Forms]] — the words of a household, and the shapes a body holds
* [[A Slave's Day]] — waking, hair, work, rest, errands, eating, bathing, sleep; the two rules of her body
* [[Kinds of Service]] — domestic, attendant, skilled, supervisory, sexual, heavy labor, the mines
* [[Household Rank]] — the ''senpei''
* [[What Each Owes the Other]] — provision and judgment against obedience, attention, honesty, and trust; the asymmetry and the weight

== Keeping ==
* [[Health, Injury, and Correction]] — telling him, who treats her, the physician's eye; correction, its instruments, and where it becomes abuse
* [[Travel and Restraint]] — alone, the named binds, at a Roedhaven, by sea, shipped
* [[Nyvra and Children]] — birth control, the reversal, and why every child is born free

== Protection and its failures ==
* [[Protection and Its Failures]] — how it works by being seen, what each city has, where it fails
* [[Hearth Keeper's Guild]]
* [[Frizdoeen]] — the wild ones: the bands of the deep Frontier
* [[The Network]] — the scatter of people who help someone reach a city

== Men and the market ==
* [[Male Slaves]] — the four kinds, the bar, the war captive, the sentenced man, the voluntary slave
* [[The Slave Market]] — the houses and the guild, reading the ribbons, the candle, the auctioneer, the premium auction, the Bill of Chattel, the collar, private sales, the transfer