Note 53 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
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Before passing to the Ottawas, Tanner had been a captive amongst the Shahnees. He was very cruelly and ignominiously treated. Yet he was not a slave, for he had been adopted by a married couple on the grave of their youngest son, whose place he was to fill53. As this agrees with the general customs of this group, in which there are no slaves, we may suppose that here also slavery was unknown.