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This excluded a majority of the population: slaves, freed slaves, children, women and metics (foreigners resident in Athens). The women had limited rights and privileges, had restricted movement in public, and were very segregated from the men.
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the preservation of the Union and his early opposition to slavery
They were scribed by hand meaning that they were copied via writing
