Note 411 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.

Jenks, in his minute account of the Bontoc Igorot of Northern Luzon, gives a full description of the division of labour among them. The poor serve the rich for wages. Slaves are not mentioned. Under the heading of “conquest” he remarks: “Certain Igorot, as those of Asin, make forcible conquests on their neighbours and carry away persons for slavery. But Bontoc has no such conquests”. Schadenberg, too, does not speak of slaves among the Bontoc people411. Hence we may safely infer that the Bontoc Igorot do not keep slaves.