[346] The problem of the worn-out plantation slave was much discussed in the United States in slavery days. An interesting account of the difficulties arising from emancipation in British Guiana is given in J Rodway’s Guiana (1912) pp 114 foll.
[347] Laws 914-5, and an allusion in Republ 495 e.
[348] Laws 914 a, 932 d.
[349] See Lysias XXII, speech against the corn-dealers.
[350] See for instance Andocides de reditu §§ 20-1 p 22 (Cyprus), Isocrates Trapeziticus § 57 p 370 (Bosporus).
[351] Isocr de bigis § 13 p 349.
[352] Isocr Panegyricus § 28 p 46, cf Plato Menex 237 e.
[353] Andoc de myster §§ 92-3 p 12, Böckh-Fränkel Staatsh I 372-7. For private letting of farm-lands see Lysias VII § 4-10 pp 108-9 (one tenant was a freedman), Isaeus XI § 42.
[354] Isaeus VI §§ 19-22, VIII § 35, XI §§ 41-4.
[355] Isocr Areopagiticus § 52 p 150.