Its economy was based on the primary sector, possessing an unskilled and increasingly larger workforce, composed by both free people (including slave owners) and slaves or their direct descendants.

The Essenes chose not to possess slaves but served each other and, as a result of communal ownership, did not engage in trading.

Social organization on Werel seems to combine the least appealing traits of feudalism and capitalism; rich Werelians, known as the Owners, possess slaves known as assets.

The state was governed officially by the Almaami, but effective control lay with regional chiefs of the central provinces who possessed considerable land, followers and slaves.

The Third Council of Orléans (of Gaul) forbids Jews to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves.

They possessed far fewer slaves than non-Jews in every British territory in North America and the Caribbean.

In contrast with classical Greek poleis, the Macedonians generally possessed very few slaves.

He has a standing army of ten million men, and his people possess slaves--white slaves--to the number of ten or fifteen million.

I was sent for a time to Virginia, to my mother's brother, who possessed a large plantation and numerous slaves.

As this area was in the "free" Northwest Territory, Will had to have legal exemptions to possess slaves.