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captives

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A family's status was indicated by the number of slaves it owned, leading to wars for the sole purpose of taking more captives. Source: Internet

Ajax violently dragged her away to the other captives. Source: Internet

Al-Badawi was one of seventeen captives who escaped through a tunnel from a Yemeni jail in 2006. Source: Internet

After the defeat of Simon bar Kokhba in 135 CE, innumerable Jewish captives were sold into slavery at Hebron's Terebinth slave-market. Source: Internet

As for Galla Placidia, as Ataulf's widow, she was "treated with cruel and wanton insult" by being forced to walk more than twelve miles on foot among the crowd of captives driven ahead of the mounted Sigeric. Source: Internet

As the group drew closer to Lexington, the town bell began to clang rapidly, upon which one of the captives proclaimed to the British soldiers "The bell's a'ringing! Source: Internet

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