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Anthropology : Social 



In the Vai and Kondo countries, and also in the interior 

 of Eastern L-iberia, there are often slave towns, villages in- 

 habited by nothing but slaves. In some cases these people 

 are only slaves by tradition, having regained their liberty of 

 action to all intents and purposes through the inability of 

 their former masters to compel them to re-enter servitude. 



424. EUROPEANS AND NATIVES ON THE BANKS OF THE ST. PAULS KIVER 



The " kinfy " of Twidi, for example, in the Sikon country 

 behind the Kru Coast, has a special town for his slaves, who 

 live there under no restrictions, except that they may not leave 

 the king's district or country without permission. These slaves 

 are not only of Kpwesi origin, but in some cases are actually 

 Mandingo who have been captured by the chiefs of the 

 interior and ' sold as slaves, or more likely have been born 



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