Note 111 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
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On the Shoshones and Utahs we are not very well informed. “An act which passed the legislature of Utah in 1852 … set forth that from time immemorial slavery has been a customary traffic among the Indians.” But we are not told who bought and who sold the slaves. It is only stated that the Utahs sold their wives and children into slavery to the Navajos111. It is not probable that the Shoshones and Utahs themselves had slaves; for Bancroft states that prisoners of war were killed, or in some cases dismissed unhurt, and Meline tells us, that the Utes and Pueblos almost invariably sold their prisoners to the Mexicans for slaves112.