The demand of compensation over and above restitution seems to spring from the constitution of human nature. A little child deprived of a toy is not content to threaten or revile (or whatever the infantile manifestation of feeling may mean), while the toy is in the hands of the aggressor. He pours out the same torrent of hostile feeling after the toy has been restored. Besides, there are cases in which _mere_ restitution would not be sufficient compensation for the injury sustained. CHAPTER XI. PERSONAL RIGHTS AND OFFENCES AGAINST THEM. 77. PERSONAL RIGHTS—SLAVERY. “For he (_i.e._, the slave) is his money”—_Exodus_ xxi. 21. “If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons and daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s.”—_Exodus_ xxi. 4. I once heard a native remark in a village assembly, “A fowl is a fowl, a goat is a goat,—well, what am I?” It is often maintained that among savages no rights are recognised except rights of property. But although native jurisprudence deals mainly with questions of property, here was a savage using as strong an argument for personal rights as any philosopher could employ. There is a great difference between the treatment of a free-man, and the treatment of the “thing” or “flesh” called a slave. The following sections (78-102) apply chiefly to freemen, and many points have no application to slaves, for instance, the goods of a deceased slave (if “goods” can be said to possess goods), do not go to his brother but to his master. The word for “free” (mlukosyo) literally means “belonging to the tribe or family,” and shows how slavery was originally viewed—the slaves did not belong to the “family”. A freeman becomes a slave when _captured_. He may be captured by an enemy or by one that has a quarrel either with himself or with the village that he belongs to. Freemen may be _enslaved by relatives_ or by superiors. Often a man will pay a debt by giving up his own kindred to his prosecutor. Those most liable to this treatment are his sisters, after that his daughters, then his brothers, and then his father and mother. In clearing off a heavy debt a native first pays over his slaves, next his inferior wives, and then his relatives in the above order. Sometimes one pawns his relatives only, if he cannot redeem his pledges promptly, he may find them sold. A freeman may become a slave _voluntarily_, as when he is in want during a time of scarcity. A man may also become the slave of a master that possesses many females in order to get a wife from him. A person may be a slave by _birth_. If his parents be both slaves he belongs to their master. When a female slave bears a child to a freeman, the child belongs not to its father, but to its mother’s master.