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Great Benin; its customs, art and horrors (1903)

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 · Halifax, Eng., F. King & Sons, ltd. · leaf 118

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allowed a morsel,his master snatching it from his hands until we taught him better manners.These little wretches can never, however, be rewarded ; whatever of dress or diet isgiven to them will at once be appropriated by the proprietor, or he failing, by anyonesenior and stronger. Gallwey, however,… … Fig. 99—From a sketch by Mr. C. Punch to show how the piece of tuskwas measured to be cut off in exchange for a slave. full grown man is about £10. The Jekries are free men and do no work....Domesticslavery as it exists in the Jekri country has many points in its favour. There isreally very little…

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