The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-01-30
SLAVE GIRLS
For HaremS Cause African
Butchery-Sell at 500,
to 5000 Each.

crease in the slave trade between Tur-
key and Tripoli and the openness with
which it is being carried on have
become source of renewed con-
Germ to foreign residents and the re-
form party here, which asserts that it
is merely as a source of supply for
it's harems that the port maintains
the connection between Tripoli and
the hinterland.
1t is declared that the regions of
Nadal, Baghirnn and Gehea are now
the scenes of horrible butcheries
similar to those which startled and
shocked all Europe twenty years ago.
} Whole villages have been destroyed
with great slaughter, according to
these reports, in order to obtain the
young girls and boys, who alone are
wanted by the slave traders.
The traffic is carried on shame
lessly by Arab and Turkish dealers,
who raid the interior towns, carry
ing away with them all the young
girls and a few youths, whom they
drive by forced marches to the Tri-
politan coast and ship to Turkish
ports.
Monthly trips are made by Turkish
vessels dedicated to this hideons trade.
The human cargo is conveyed aboard
secretly and the slave ships always
sail by night laden with young Afri-
can girls between the ages of eight
and twenty, for whom they obtain
prices ranging from $40 to 5000, ac-
cording to age and plumpness, when
their destination is reached. The tor
lures suffered by the slaves, who are
packed in the hold in great num-
/, bers, are indescribable.
The Arab or Turkish traders, in
armed parties, surprise the interior
villages by night with strips of
white cotton bound about their heads
to distinguish them in the darkness
from the natives they plan to STAY
When the men of the village have all
been killed or have fled, the women
+, and children are gathered together
and driven before the victorious ira
ders to the coast.
Occasionally the male survivors of
the hamlet are giving an opportuni-
ty to ransom their women by payment
of large tributes of elephants tusks.
But generally the trader prefers to
N-take a chance in the slave mart rath-
er than the ivory market, and gets
his victims away as soon as he can.
The white slave market of Turkey
is supplied by the wild Russian prov
inces between the Black and Caspian
seas, northeast of Asiatic Turkey.
The most ancient industry of these
countries is the raising of girl
slaves for the Turkish market Young
white slaves are extremely high-priced
and only the richest merchants can
afford them.
In Circassia and Georgia many fam
lilies exist who rear their daughters
expressly for the Turkish slave mark
ct. All the dealer has to do is to
call around with the purchase money
whenever he is notified that a girl
slave is ready for market The At
rican dealers supply only the wants
of middle-class families, who have
to be content with black women.
Tripoli is not alone in purveying
women slaves for the Turkish market
The industry is equally active in Mo-
rocco, where slaves are openly owned
and exported. The largest slave mar
ket that exists in Africa to-day is said
to be in the city of Marrakesh, the
southern capital of the Moorish En-
pire. 1t is circular Enclosure, roof
less, save for certain pens, and filled