(vi) It is true that the children of slaves are born slaves, 
but every generation makes a difference in their status. New 
slaves can no longer be captured or bought, and there must 
be now comparatively few whose slave status so originated. 
Slaves of the second generation have always been known 
as ‘slaves of the house,” and these have farms allotted 
to them and not infrequently marry into ‘the family 
of their master and rise to positions of trust. ‘In 
the fourth generation such persons are practically indis- 
tinguishable from freemen. On the other hand native 
public opinion in this respect may have undergone some 
modification due to the fact that it is no longer possible to 
acquire new slaves. It is not unreasonable to suppose that 
some masters will be reluctant to grant any marked change 
of status to slaves of the second generation.’ 
(viii) It follows from the above that ‘‘ sooner or later servi- 
tude in the Sierra Leone Protectorate will become so 
attenuated as to cease to exist; but this would probably not 
actually occur before the expiration of another fifty years and 
more, which is obviously too long to wait.”’ 
(ix) “* Practically no complaints are received from slaves in 
regard to ill-treatment.”” (When, however, at a meeting 
with native chiefs at Makump in August, 1922, I warned 
them, inter alia, to see to it that domestics were well treated, 
there was a loud demonstration of approval from the assembled 
crowd which evidently included many slaves.) 
(x) Remarkably few slaves run away to French territory 
or to the Colony, where they could settle in freedom if they 
wished to do so. 
(xi) Scarcely any of the many slaves among the 7,000 
carriers who went to Hast Africa redeemed themselves on 
their return, though they returned from the war with £30-40 
due to them in wages. A few of them, it is true, remained 
in Freetown, but the great majority went back to their masters 
who took no portion of their slave’s wages. 
(xii) Captain Stanley computes the number of slaves in 
Sierra Leone at about 219,000, or, say, 15.15 per cent. of the 
population, i.e., excluding slaves of the fourth generation who 
are practically free. *‘ Speaking generally, the tribes who 
were most successful in war and trade acquired most slaves, 
sometimes at the expense of the less warlike tribes. In the 
former category we find the Susu, Yalunka, Temne, Mendi, 
Mandingo, Vai, and possibly Bullom tribes: amongst the 
latter we find the Koranko, Konno, Limba, Tokko. Gola, 
Krim, Sherbro, and possibly Kissi tribes.” 
(xiii) Captain Stanley ‘* does not find that agriculture is 
more rigorously conducted by the tribes among which servitude 
hardly exists: on the contrary, they are as a rule poorer.