View attachment 1320082
Some feet in a more figurative kind of bondage: the bare feet of a household slave owned by an upper middle class suburban couple, showcasing the thin golden ankle cuffs marking her status (as well as some matching toe rings her owners adorn her with for aesthetic reasons - a slave's attire is also a way owners like to show off
their status). Custom requires slaves to be kept barefoot, and the law requires them to be adorned with at least one permanent ankle bracelet or cuff, inscribed with the standard statement that she is property of her owner, at such and such address, as well as the duration of her servitude.
As for 'guilty' well, that's in the eye of the beholder....it was the law allowing people to sell themselves into slavery for a set number of years in order to 'work' off their debt that provided so many wealthy and upwardly mobile citizens the chance to own a slave (if temporarily), and indeed many of them justify the fact to themselves with the slaves 'guilt' in the situation, being irresponsible enough to end up in this predicament....