text:  The slave-markets and condition of slaves in the East is treated at considerable length: but as the erroneous notions formerly entertained have been in a great measure dispelled by more correct views obtained by modern travellers it is sufficient to observe that "the laws and customs relative to the treatment of slaves in Turkey divest their condition of its worst features and place the slave nearly on a level with the free servitor: nay in many instances the condition of the slave especially of white slaves is superior to the other; as the path of honour and fortune is more accessible to the dependent and protected slave than to the independent man of lower degree