He was halfway between a slave master and a father figure.

After a customary argument over the price, the slave master goes away happy.

And if I tell myself that often enough, maybe I'll believe it's all right to be a slave master.

That is what a lot of slave masters did.

There is the crushing of hope as the market sellers hand their money over to the slave master.

"Just what kind of need would drive them to become slave masters?"

In fact, slave masters were required to offer access to baptism.

"You are quite the slave master," he said, shaking his head.

It is easy to consider the ugly European; the slave master.

They gave a free pass to the slave masters.