Note 466 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
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The Nagas keep slaves, if we are to believe Grange who “saw many Muneeporees who had been thus seized whilst young, and sold both amongst Kookies, Cacharees and Nagas”. “The children of slaves are slaves.” Miss Godden remarks: “Slavery was unknown among one or more tribes [of the Nagas] according to Dr. Brown.” “Among the Aos [one of the Naga tribes] it is said to have been universal”466.