HELOTS

the ancient serf population of Greece and the property of the Spartan State. They are supposed by some authorities to have been the original inhabitants of Laconia. They were employed in agricultural pursuits by the Spartans, and in war were required to perform; military service. A revolt of the h’s, in 464 B.C., was with difficulty suppre ed. 1909), an American writer, 6. in North Carolina. For a time he lived in California. He was brought into great prominence by his The Impending Crisis of the South, published in 1857, an antislavery work. He published other works ‘which had le succe . From 1861 to 1867 he was United Stages consul at Buenos Aires.