Editing Slavery (section)

=== Dependents ===
The word ''slavery'' has also been used to refer to a legal state of dependency to somebody else.<ref name="Encyclopedia1">{{Cite book |title=Slavery and South Asian History |first1=Indrani |last1=Chatterjee |first2=Richard |last2=Eaton |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-253-11671-0 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=M. A. |last1=Dandamayev |last2=Barda |last3=Bardadārī |title=Encyclopædia Iranica}}</ref> For example, in [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]], the situations and lives of such slaves could be better than those of common citizens.<ref>{{cite book |last=Farazmand |first=Ali |date=1998 |chapter=Persian/Iranian Administrative Tradition |editor-first=Jay M. |editor-last=Shafritz |title=International Encyclopedia of Public Edict and Administration |location=Boulder, CO |publisher=[[Westview Press]] |pages=1640–1645 (1642) |quote=Persians never practiced mass slavery, and in many cases the situations and lives of semi-slaves (prisoners of war) were in fact better than the common citizens of Persia.}}</ref>
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