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Slavery In The East

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

hc sluvtj market wus cruwded with slaves, na soveral caravans liud reccntlv arrived fruin the inleriur. Franks are nol prohibited I)ere,a9ut Cunstaiuinnplc, from i b'jying slaves, so we were nmch proaed by tlio slavo dealers U buy sorna of ilseir livo stock. My frieud oífJrod IGüO pias■ tres (f0 dullurj) for uu Abyssiniuu girl, but wiieu tlio barguin ;nn cineluded, my ludy grcsv bulky uid piulctiled the wou!.! not bü sold tu u Ftauk, tu the bargain wó broken tip. íáuino of ilie.se slavea corno from hs iur South as Timbucloo, but most ot tliern uro taken in llic preilatory wurs, which tlio numerous Iribca of Abysiniu aro conatantly waging agninsl eaeh olher. Tiity are sold lo the siave dealers, wlio resort nt cerlain seasoiis to Dongoia, and othcr places on the upper Nüe buyond the cataracis which bring ilicm to those markets for sale, witli gold djust, ivorynnt other articlea from the interior of África. Slavcry bas conlinuud iti utiintermiited existenco aniüng all liie nalions of the Eaat from tlie linie of Abraham. The pooreat Bedouin fumily in tho deacrl has two or more slavos. Slaves in the Eust, however, are regarded in the fiunüy of the master raihcr as household sefvunts tbiin alavés, asid are rarciy sold. It would bei cunaiQcred inoustroua ia a man to niake a i Ira I : uf his sluves. They become com-j 1 poiiont parís of a íuiuily, and are trealedj ! wiih such humanity, . thnt, thuvih it muy ! not pulliato tho violutiou of thc nghts oí' man, yci i teiuSs iriucli to ameliorate the condition oí"tho unfortunate vtctim. Slavery belongs to no particular color in the Ea.it, tho AbyssiniiMis and Gcorgians being ueárly wiiite. Ncither ia color n proj - udico ayainst a man thcre. I hnve eeun black Boys and black oilicers in Egypt on equal lboUng mth the Turks, posscssed of as inuch aulhority and as much respccted. A hv tnonlh's reidence in Cairo soon rcmovea ono'ü prejudico agatnát a black skin.