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johnbratten said:
Field Slaves. By IrisObscura and Turnkey.

In the rankings of slave girls, field slaves were close to the bottom, although they were higher in status than mine slaves, quarry slaves and, at the very bottom, galley slaves.

Field slaves were forced to work naked, but to the women toiling nude, the humiliation and degradation at being reduced to a slave animal was certainly a secondary consideration to the backbreaking labor they were compelled to perform under the gaze of their overseers armed with long, rawhide whips.
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I would think below galley slaves, after all many of them can just be repeatedly flogged to get the last bit of work out of them without bothering about making them last. As they collapse from starvation, cold and dehydration they can just be left to rot and fertilse the soil whereas on board a ship they cannot be immediately replaced and carrying spares would be less efficient than carrying food waste aboard to sustain them. Not that there is any need to whip and beat them any less, in fact their better health might enable them to withstand even more brutal encouragement to work harder.
 
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johnbratten said:
Escaped Field Slave. By calaf.
The young slave took advantage of her overseer dozing off to make a run for it. Of course a naked slave girl had almost no chance of a successful escape and she was spotted by a neighboring farmer as she sprinted down the road. The good man informed the owner and she was soon apprehended.
Her owner thought a bit over her punishment and then decided. First she would be pussy-ringed and branded. To give her time to recover, she was be chained in the dungeon for a week. After her time in the dungeon was over, she would be sold to the owner of a nearby salt mine where she would perform this grueling labor under the lashes of the slave drivers.
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I really like this picture. It is on the forum in some other thread and it has stayed with me. The girl looks like she is sad, despondent, but resigned to her station and her fate.

Restrained as she is there, perhaps she is waiting for some cruel and degrading punishment at the hands of an overseer or a matron. The caption above by johnbratten is certainly a back story, and I have fantasized myself being in a similar (or many similar) scenarios. The imagery makes me dewey
 
Tavy said:
I would think below galley slaves, after all many of them can just be repeatedly flogged to get the last bit of work out of them without bothering about making them last. As they collapse from starvation, cold and dehydration they can just be left to rot and fertilse the soil whereas on board a ship they cannot be immediately replaced and carrying spares would be less efficient than carrying food waste aboard to sustain them. Not that there is any need to whip and beat them any less, in fact their better health might enable them to withstand even more brutal encouragement to work harder.
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Only in the ownership of particularly callous or wasteful masters, IMO.
 
KageKamen said:
Only in the ownership of particularly callous or wasteful masters, IMO.
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The owners of huge plantations, e.g. cotton or sugar cane, own hundreds, and sometimes thousands of female slaves (especially if they own more than one plantation), who, with the sweat of their brow, from sunrise to sunset, pick cotton, sorghum or sugar cane in wicker baskets with their own hands, plant and fertilize the fields, etc. Although their owner can treat the female slaves however he wants, basically without any consequences, after all they are only things, and he could always exchange the female slave for a new one if she dies of hunger, cold, dehydration, is killed for disobedience or if she is unable to work, at the same time the owner knows that the female slaves are part of his estate, and it would be disadvantageous if, for example, an epidemic broke out among the female slaves, they were collectively malnourished, or they died of exhaustion due to sadistic treatment, because it would negatively affect the value of his estate. Thanks to advanced medicine, cases of disease among slaves on plantations occur only sporadically, and female slaves receive good quality food rations. Although they have to serve from dawn to dusk, cases of malnutrition are rather isolated and concern individual female slaves punished for disobedience, as are cases of flogging, which do not end in death or severe disability, concerning individual female slaves on the plantation throughout the year. Female slaves whose productivity has dropped for some reason (if it was not related to their laziness, which is punished) are usually transferred to lighter work for some time (e.g. preparing meals). Moreover, only healthy female slaves (which is the norm for all slaves) are sent to the plantations, considered capable of hard work, and the most productive can count on certain privileges.

Finally, they managed to arrive in good technical condition on a female slave ship.
 
Very interestingly, reading extant accounts, criminals and slaves feared being assigned to the municipal bakery system in the Roman Empire the most. Apparently it was considered harder more dangerous work than working the quarries.

Also, based on out fantasies, we tend to believe slaves were treated like easily disposed of and replaced cheap components in the labor force.

Based on documentation of much more recent slave labor cultures we can see this is simply not true.

In America prior to the Civil War we have extensive records of slaves being sold for hundreds even thousands of dollars. This was during a time period when a well paid skilled laborer might make $20-$25 a month. Add in the cost of food, clothing, shelter and care and you can see this is a pretty large capital investment in a single member of your labor force. And this is just for common labor or domestic slaves, nothing special at all.

That kind of investment would tend to make the owners pretty careful about how they took care of their "equipment" and generally not abusive.

Now of course costs would be affected by supply and demand but also think about even if the cost of a particular breed of slave was low, that breed may not be considered good for your particular application. Especially as the current workers were already fully trained.

So if we look at the slave trade in Central Asia into the 1800s Persian women were considered the cream of the crop as sex slaves. Eastern European males were considered top of the heap when is came to manual labor, ability to learn and technical skills. Conversely Hindus, male and female, were considered relatively worthless.

So slavery, the slave trade and the costs involved were as complex as any modern industrial or commercial system.

And of course ancient naval forces were propelled by well paid, well trained professional rowers, not slaves (thank you Ben Hur). Merchant galleys, while they existed, were few and far between due to their inability to carry large cargos.

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jean-luc said:
Superbe soubrette... Astique-t-elle la queue avec autant d'attention?
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Please remember to post in English in the main part. I will attach the translation.
 
jean-luc said:
Ok. I am french and my english is... poor. Sorry, but I will try...
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Just use a translation program like Google Translate or any other. Many of us here are not native English speakers.
 
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