I wanted to know how slavery in Morrowind worked. I know each house speficially had their slaves do labor in different areas; Mining or Farm work. But did any slaves ever work in the manors and mansions? And if so, what where they? I played Morrowind, but not extensively to understand the lore related to that area.

And I am aware there was some sort of slavery in Hammerfell(Two books at least give this source). So can it be possible for a slave owner from one of the Great Houses in Morrowind pursue his own buisiness in Hammerfell and continue his slave trade without the influence of the Great Houses?

If you have any links also regarding to how it worked and ingame dialogue, I would be most grateful. Thanks.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/forum-archive-gt-noonan

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/eastern-provinces-impartially-considered

Ah, thanks. Great to see that there are some similarities to the Roman Empire. But some differences as well.

Who sails the ships out of Tear ladened with sermons and shein? Who drinks a toast to the reptilian coast? Hail Black Marsh! The dark elves have chains. Resdayn with sermons and shein!

Comberry to wine to slaves

You can find several slaves in http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Therana

There is also another quest http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Zainab_Nerevarine where you will have to find a slave wife for someone... Meaning slavery also happened in the bedroom at least in some instances. Like many.

There are probably more instances, but these are all I can think of right now.

Awesome. Another thing I was looking for. Thanks for the links.

You have to think about the context for that quest. The Zainab Ashkhan wants a wife who is a high-born daughter of House Telvanni. No such Telvanni daughter in their right mind is going to marry an ashlander, so the wise woman of the Zainab concocts a scheme. The Nerevarine will buy a pretty slave, and dress her up with exquisite clothes and perfumes.

While the woman was a slave, she was merely the mer element in a scheme to dupe the Zainab Ashkhan into thinking that the Nerevarine was offering him a High-Born Telvanni lady for marriage. The Ashkhan did not want and wasn't looking for a slave, but the Wise Woman knew that any old girl could be coached into appearing to be a telvanni noble woman (and that the Ashkhan would be fooled). Using a slave was merely a matter of convenience.

I know the context of the quest, I also know it's possible to go into a slave market and buy a "beautiful" slave girl with certain traits that make reproduction more likely... Now personally I don't think those slaves are used for manual labor...

The slave you get and dress up says she doesn't have a problem with it though. She being the Khan's wife was a lot better than being a regular slave, so what you did wasn't really all that immoral.

In fact, when she learns that you are being pronounced Nerevarine, she's delighted to be a part of your story.

True, well except for the forcing part, you probably improved her life... I was just trying to make a point that slaves were used for several purposes. I wasn't trying to say anything about the morality of it all...

Discussing the morality of the Dunmer is a dead end road. There's no way to make them look heroic at the end. At least not for me.

Just because you're [censored] your house slave doesn't mean you're intentionally looking to buy a wife. (though my main point was that, since it's all a big ruse on the Nerevarine's and the Wise Woman's part, it's not really a good example)

How did it work? It worked well. That's all anybody ever needs to know.

It worked out so that the PC couldn't be ashamed of him/her self.

Imperial law outbanned slavery, but what if a member of one of the Great Houses held onto prisoners.slaves and took them to be executed in the Arena in Cyrodiil, would there be a measure of leniency in regards to it being legal to own said captives?

In Oblivion, there were argonian prisoners brought from Black Marsh, promised freedom if they killed the gladiator.

The Dunmer could own slaves, and buy and sell them in Morrowind. I'd imagine ownership would still count if the slaves were brought into another province. More importantly however, no slave owning Dunmer would ever bring his slaves to be executed in Cyrodiil... It makes no sense.