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White slavery in the Barbary states (1853)

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 · Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland, O., Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; [etc., etc.] · leaf 13

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TATES. 7 forth one of these. It may not be without profit to dwell on the origin, the history, and the char- acter of a custom, which, after being for a long time a byword and a hissing among the nations, has at last been driven from the world. The easy, instinctive, positive reprobation, which it… … or perhaps it might be more appropriately called White Slavery in the Barbary States. As Algiers was its chief seat, it seems to have acquired a cur- rent name from that place. This I shall not dis- turb ; though I shall speak of White Slavery, or the Slavery of Christians, throughout the Barbary…

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