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Ironically, freeing one’s own slave was illegal in some times and places without state consent. In the antebellum US South (e.g., Virginia 1806), an owner who freed a slave without legislative approval could be fined, and the freed person could be re-enslaved. Unauthorized manumission was a criminal act.

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In many systems, slaves had no legal capacity to own property. Any property they acquired belonged to their owner. For a slave to hide money or trade goods secretly was illegal – a form of theft from the master. Yet in other systems (e.g., Roman peculium, Islamic mudarabah arrangements), slaves could legally manage property for their owner’s benefit. When slaves exceeded those bounds, it became illegal. skacat illegal aspects of legal slavery 18 best

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By 1740, several colonies had laws forbidding separation of mothers from children under two years. Traders bypassed this by selling the mother “with child” and aborting the fetus via poison shortly after sale, or by claiming the child had died of “natural causes” when it was sold separately. Ironically, freeing one’s own slave was illegal in