ng off sin are very heavy.
Political institutions readjust and redistribute the burdens of
life over a population, and they change the form of the same
perhaps, but the burdens are in the conditions of human life.
They are always present, and political institutions never can do
away with them at all. Therefore slavery, if we mean by it
subjection to the conditions of human life, never can be
abolished.

+275. Ethnographical illustrations of slavery.+ In Togo male
slaves work in the fields where yams are cultivated. Each carries
a basket in which he has a chicken, which will live on worms and
insects in the field. The slave is soon married. He has two days
in the week to work for himself. One of his grown boys can
replace him on the other four. He can buy a slave to replace him.
Thus they often attain to wealth, freedom, and power. A female
slave, if married to a free man, becomes free. This form of
slavery is only a mode of service. The slave lives with the
family, and enjoys domestic consideration. There is also debt
slavery, the whole family being responsible for the debt of a
member.[650] Klose, however, describes the ruin wrought by slave
raids. "Murder and incendiarism are the orders in this business.
Great villages and districts are made deserts and are depopulated
by the raids." "It is not in negro nature to subject one's self
voluntarily to labor. The negro wants to be compelled to work."
The fetich priest gives him a harmless drink, which is to be
fatal to him if he tries to run away.[651] The Ngumba in south
Kamerun hold their slaves in huts near their own houses. A
mishandled slave can leave his master and demand the protection
of another. A debtor who cannot pay becomes slave of his creditor
until the debt is paid in value, but this does not free him. He
can pay also by his wife or daughter.[652] Amongst the
Ewe-speaking tribes a woman who is condemned to a fine may sell
or pawn her children, if her husband will not give her the amount
to be paid. The husbands often hold back until the women pawn the
children to them, whereby they obtain complete control of the
children.[653] Their slaves are criminals and debtors, or, if
foreigners, are victims of war or of kidnapping. They are not
regarded with contempt, are well treated, do not have as hard a
lot as an English agricultural laborer, and often