The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-05


Uuf cairo cores ondent mentions the
9E,styse sSfi6s1 81 4 slSve.d ealer Who had
.afare1 y ksaudau woman for sale IN
Csiro so tl1gee years hard labor. EgYp.
fians still sS1e TigoF of life remember
when Stibians Allyssinians negroes
ana ssseassSibs used ID Be openly
Holikht N sale IN the slaFe-Inarset at
Cairo. ThaeCps of august lsL7
put q stop tosthe worst abuses OF the
franc. But slaves as we have seen are
still sold n Cairo In spite Of The con-
yentipn tney aseMtin imported from the
hunting groandsOf the Soudan. From
some stateinents which have been sub
,nitted to Us on the subject it appears
that there are considerably upward oE
.tuashundred slaRe-dealersin ID Cairo alone
Many of these raScals are syrians and
Greeks. Tic prices for negro girls and
BOYS range from G10 to E30ior f5o
head. Absysfniaus are worth moTes 9
eheauty max eRen fetch as much - 3lo0.
Before tlle year 1877 at least two thons-
and slaves were imported yearly into
Cairo. WOW the number Is much small
ef. GFYdb5dE sotfz ebony grain 10 the
.sizna term by which slaves are known
IN the .trada. Anybody, even 3 Euro
pean, If he or she employ the services
Of an intermediary in the confidence OF
the diellah. may buy, any day habba
-aala fresh from the SoudaH,o and At the
prices quoted above. Though the
greatest scoandFels unYhiPPed, these IN
fermediaries are interesting people to
talk with. sThey can talk leaTnedly4
Eahaut theachief alaxe yielding tFibes--
the ShilleOiss, the DinkaEs. the Noohas'
the Bazigars,. the kerdars-and give
curious anecdotes about slave charac-
d D notwithstanding the convention Of
1877, the possession Of slayes is legal IN
Egypt The domestic slave is the Moham-
nledian equivalent of the European
domestic servant The sale Of persons
who were inhomesfic slavery before 1S7 {
is alss permitted, hut only from family
| In .Egypt. proper this right of sale, will
however, expire next August, and any
| head Of d household selling his bonds
men or bondswoInen after that date viii
be triahles Cor gs.theft with murder In
| the Soudan the same restricted right OF
sale viii last until August, 1889. All
other kinds of sale are punishable, alike
in the Soudan and Egyptias proper, as
theft NTH murder. Mutilators OF
1 children are punishable as 'sassassins. !"
i To the charge already named, theft with
murder. those persons also subject them
selves v no deprive, or are implicated IN
ldepriying, manumitted. slaves of their
Letters Of enfranehisement. These let
i fters are at once given by the Consuls, OF
THE Provincial Governors. or the diree'
tors of the four sl2Ye Bureaux of Egypt
to any slave on his mere application
This. at any rate, seems to be the law
now, though formerly it was understood
that a slave could claim nlanumlsslon
louIy on grounds Of i'll treatment. Last
EIyi a detailed register must be kept q
the past and current history OF every
manumitted slave. Being presumably
unable to take care of themselves when
/ thrown suddenly y upon the world, freed
4 slaves must be cared for by and al
! the expense of the government; it's dl
reeSed that the woman be put to service
in tsrespectable families or married tc
/ soldiers in the army; that the men be
I taught trades or employed in tho mill
tary service, and the children be sent te
school, The instructions regarding the
i supervision Of, and provision for manu-
fnitted slaves are precise and minute; i
may indeed be said that the slave law oi
Egypt is a model of; humanity; that IL
a Mohamrnedian country it is a marvel
/ goes without saying. The above rule re
\ Iate 10 the land trade The maritime
/ laws. to which we need only allude, are
also precise and stringent. Yet, as W.
have shown above the trade survives II
i spite of both sets Of regulations. The
4 truth is that the terrors of Egyptian Law
exist chiefly son paper.-Cor. Londor
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