It is occasionally useful to have the slave perform arbitrary and unpleasant acts.

The Christian faith forbade suicide, and so the slave had performed this last service.

The grounds were in need of care, for despite Caroline's will the slaves performed their tasks with dawdling indifference.

Neither must they represent slaves, male or female, performing the offices of slaves?

This was yet another display of power no human slaves to perform these tasks.

These slaves perform 97.3 percent of all manual labor.

And why can a slave not perform wage labour for his master at the estate of some third party?

(The slaves performed it to music so their masters would think they were dancing, not practicing self-defense.)

No one knew better how a slave should perform.

He puts up a small stick while a slave performs the circumcision.