Note 519 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
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According to Bodenstedt “every Suane who is not able to provide for his daughters and sisters, may sell them as slaves”519. This is the only reference made to slavery by any of our informants520. Telfer states that the independent Suanes acknowledge neither king nor nobility, consider all men equal, despise all authority and have no laws521. Therefore it does not seem probable that they keep slaves; perhaps the daughters and sisters of whom Bodenstedt speaks are sold abroad.