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where the masters were increasingly hostile
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to the idea of freeing slaves,
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and in terror of slave rebellions
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with a very different society of classical Athens.
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There slaves walked the streets with such ease
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as to offend noblemen, who were class conscious.
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Plato complained about the Athenian democracy,
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that men and women who have been sold
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are no less free than their purchasers.
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An anonymous writer of the fifth century was appalled
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by the behavior of slaves in Athens.
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He says "One may not strike them there,