CHAP. VII. 
GENERAL ACCOUNT OF FEZZAN. 
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Respecting the offspring of slaves, it may not be uninteresting 
to observe the regulations existing in Fezzan, which are, as far as I 
can collect, the same as in all Moslem countries. 
A Ivhadem ^j^, or negress, bearing a child by her master, cannot 
afterwards be sold, but must be maintained for the remainder of her 
Hfe by him, or any person to whom he may marry her ; and her child 
is free, and eqi ally entitled to support. 
A negress having a child by any man but her master (even 
though the parties should be married), is the mother of a slave, 
she herself not being free. 
Should the female slave of one man be with child by the male 
slave of another, the infant so born becomes the property of the 
master of the female, and can, as well as its mother, be sold. 
A child, the offspring of a free woman by a slave, partakes of its 
mother's state, and is free. 
It not unfrequently happens that masters allow family slaves to 
marry without liberating them ; but their children are slaves, and 
can be sold, although it is not considered honourable so to dispose 
of them. These children, and, indeed, ail those born in the country, 
are called Shushan 
