Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off.
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
"If a man's wife be surprised (in flagrante delicto) with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves."
"If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public."
"If a man has harbored a runaway slave, male or female, in his house and has not brought him forth at the summons of the public crier, the owner of the house shall be put to death."
"If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off."
"If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its …"
Your cart is empty
