[30] Dr. Tönnies, in his review of the first edition of this work, remarks that the last sentences contain a most important qualification of our theory of the connection between slavery and land tenure. Every one does not want to take land into cultivation, though he may do so without any payment. On the other hand, where there are people destitute of land, it is not certain that they serve the landowners and so make slavery superfluous. It may be that, though they own no land, they have other resources to live upon, or that they are not apt to perform such work as is most wanted by the rich, etc.
We are well aware of all this. Yet we think we are justified in concluding that, generally speaking, slavery only exists where there is still free land, i.e. free land fit for cultivation. That we admit many exceptions to this rule, will appear from the last paragraphs of this chapter. [↑]
[32] Waltershausen, pp. 17, 18. [↑]
[33] Mariner, II pp. 162, 160; West, p. 262. [↑]
[34] Thomson, Savage Island, p. 143. [↑]
[35] Turner, Samoa, pp, 176, 177; Von Bülow, p. 192. [↑]
[36] Hoag is a large family-group of which the pure is the head. [↑]