Re: Killing Slavers
When societies cared, branding was a traditional way of proving that someone was a legal slave, though bills of sale were also used. In most cases though, a slave was a slave because someone in the community claimed them as a slave and, if the prospective slave lacked standing or anyone to defend their rights, they found themselves in chains. Kidnapping was always a large source of slaves, the Barbary Pirates and the Vikings both took slaves during their raids and sold many of the excess captives to slavers, and no slaver cared about their origins. Slavers usually did not ask any questions about the source of slaves that they bought from people.
Honestly though, slavers were almost always considered scum in slave holding societies because the majority of societies knew that slavery was wrong but, as long as they benefitted from it, they did not care. Slaves were conveniences, providing labor and sex, and they were valuable assets that could be traded and sold. While the majority of people would buy and sell slaves through intermediaries, I doubt that many slavers found themselves invited to high society functions, as even their own people thought they were, at best, a necessary evil.
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