If slavery was so bad why didn't they just run away?

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[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It was still slavery. But their laws look to me more like "fine, you guys can have slaves, but there's going to be some restrictions".

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's more like you have to take care of this person now and provide for him/her.