Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — Naked Slaves in Timbuctoo. [ARTICLE]

Naked Slaves in Timbuctoo.

This girl was being brought in by the Morocco gate, on the road from the city of Morocco. She was nude, comely of face and figure, with large, dreamy, lovely eyes, and streaming long black hair. Her color was of the olivian type, which shows the red blood coursing in the veins. She was of medium height and aged about sixteen. Four old Arab “dealers,” garbed in all the glitter and tinsel of the Orient, guarded this girl as if she were an Amazon of strength and prowess. One old Arab in a loud voice cried out her merits and nationally as the group passed on to the center of the town. Halting, the whole party were suddenly surrounded by intending buyers, both Christian and pagan. They came up to the crouching girl, pulled her armß to and fro, opened her mouth and looked at her teeth, made her stand erect and then haggled over the price. “She is worth $100,” say the Arab dealers in one simultaneous cry, “but will let her go for S9O if you take her now.” Our dragoman translates and tells us how she will go to Egypt and fetch S2OO at a first bid, — Cor. Baltimore Sun.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men; they make the earth wholesome. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and actually or ideally we manage to live with our superiors. We call our children and our land by their names; their works and effigies are’in our houses.