Note 487 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.

The Turkomans, according to Vambéry, sell foreigners as slaves487. In another book the same author tells us that in their internal wars they made slaves; and he speaks of their keeping female slaves488. Stein and Weil make no mention of slavery489. Letourneau, referring to Burnes, remarks: “The Persian captives are for the Turkomans a source of large profit; but the captors do not as a rule keep them for themselves, except sometimes the women, of whom they make concubines or wives”490. So we may safely infer that slavery does not exist here.