Note 87 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.

Lewis and Clark, describing the Mandans, speak of prisoners living among them. One of their chiefs had been taken prisoner and adopted by them, “and he now enjoys great consideration among the tribe.” In another place they tell us of a woman, who was sold as a slave to a Mandan chief, who brought her up and afterwards married her87. The evidence is not sufficient to decide, whether their prisoners were held as slaves or were adopted into the tribe.