committeemen-at-large

Updated: May 1, 2025

Ranal Valdry, the Lord Provost-Marshal demanded, incredulously. "Pay our own slaves?" "You idiot," somebody told him, "they aren't our slaves any more. That's the whole point of this discussion." "But ... but how can we pay slaves?" one of the committeemen-at-large asked. "Freedmen, I mean?" "With money. You do have money, haven't you?" "Of course we have. What do you think we are, savages?"

H. Beam Piper - A Slave is a Slave