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alusur-6873	Ali, Kecia	Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn Hain, eds., Concubines and Courtesans	2018	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2930	105	43	One thread weaving through the volume is the way that reproductive strategies, especially but not only when rulership is in play, might lead to shifting preferences for marriage to free women, who could offer family alliances, or concubinage with enslaved women, whose lack of such ties would avoid potential divided loyalties. One of the merits of this volume is the number of enslaved women about whom it presents biographical information— though of varying levels of detail and facticity.	cache/alusur-6873.pdf	txt/alusur-6873.txt