Editing Slavery (section)

==Quotes==
[[File:Marc Fishman Tyrion enslaved.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Tyrion Lannister]], enslaved, by Marc Fishman ©]]
{{Quote|A man should be able to do as he likes with his own chattel.{{Ref|aGoT|3}}|[[Illyrio Mopatis]] regarding [[Jorah Mormont]]'s slaving past}}

{{Quote|My queen, there have been no slaves in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] for thousands of years. The [[old gods]] and the [[Faith of the Seven|new]] alike hold slavery to be an abomination. Evil. If you should land in [[Westeros]] at the head of a slave army, many good men will oppose you for no other reason than that. You will do great harm to your cause, and to the honor of [[House Targaryen|your House]].{{Ref|ASOS|23}}|[[Barristan Selmy|Arstan Whitebeard]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

{{Quote|Take [[Missandei|this one]] as our gift to you, a token of a bargain well struck.{{Ref|ASOS|27}}|[[Kraznys mo Nakloz]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

{{Quote|Slaves perished by the score, but their masters did not care. Red [[gold]] and yellow gold and [[silver]] were reckoned to be more precious than the lives of slaves, for slaves were cheap in the old [[Freehold of Valyria|Freehold]].{{Ref|AFFC|22}}|the [[kindly man]] to [[Arya Stark]]}}

{{Quote|'''Xaro''': We curse the rain when it falls upon our heads, yet without it we should starve. The world needs rain ... and slaves. You make a face, but it is true. Consider [[Qarth]]. In art, music, [[magic]], trade, all that makes us more than beasts, Qarth sits above the rest of mankind as you sit at the summit of [[Great Pyramid|this pyramid]] ... but below, in place of bricks, the magnificence that is the [[Meereen|Queen of Cities]] rests upon the backs of slaves. Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods? For some men to be great, others must be enslaved.<br>
'''Daenerys''': Slavery is not the same as rain. I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.{{Ref|ADWD|16}}|[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] and [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

{{Quote|This [[Daenerys Targaryen|arrogant child]] has taken it upon herself to [[Targaryen campaign in Slaver's Bay|smash the slave trade]], but that traffic was never confined to [[Slaver's Bay]]. It was part of the sea of trade that spanned [[known world|the world]], and the dragon queen has clouded the water.{{Ref|ADWD|22}}|[[Qavo Nogarys]] to [[Haldon]]}}

{{Quote|You could breed the two of them, get good coin for the whelps.{{Ref|ADWD|47}}|Auctioneer, auctioning [[Tyrion Lannister]] and [[Penny]]}}

{{Quote|Taking a man as a [[thrall]] or woman as a [[salt wife]], that was right and proper, but men were not goats or fowl to be bought and sold for [[gold]].{{Ref|ADWD|56}}|thoughts of [[Victarion Greyjoy]]}}

{{Quote|There was never a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.{{Ref|ADWD|66}}|thoughts of [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}

{{Quote|[[Yezzan zo Qaggaz|Yezzan's]] slaves ate better than many [[Smallfolk|peasants]] back in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] and were less likely to starve to death come winter. Slaves were chattel, aye. They could be bought and sold, whipped and branded, used for carnal pleasure of their owners, bred to make more slaves. In that sense they were no more than [[dog]]s or [[horse]]s. But most [[lord]]s treated their dogs and horses well enough. Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the [[steel]] struck the [[flint]], such men were as rare as [[dragon]]'s teeth; elsewise [[known world|the world]] would not have been so full of slaves.{{Ref|ADWD|66}}|thoughts of [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}