MOROCCO SLAVE TRADE.

Evening Star, Issue 14634, 2 August 1911, Page 10

MOROCCO SLAVE TRADE.

With regard to the slave trade, there is no check placed in the way of this traflie. Tho slave markets in po.t towns were closed mainyears ago, hi deference to the representations made by tho JJrit.sh Oo.vcmmtni in lb84; but the private s»le j'ocs on -without.-cluck. I attended the public »ie of skives in Morocco City. There were a lu-rfjc number of buyers, and the stock for sale consisted of 24 feipale slaves from tho Sudan, from 12 to 18 years ot ape, and the prices railgid from £ls to £2l each. There was one black ra«n for sale. The open sale of slaves should, jn my judgment, cease wherever a British Consul is present, as is the case .in Morocco City. A French protege was pun m prison in Mdfc coco Gity for private olave dea'.iiu; by order of the The French Consul asked for his release, but. the Ba?li.-i refused, Mating that Knglnnd and other countries asked for (he abolition oi' slavery, and here a p.otege of a Christian Power was found cnj;ajr<d in the traffic. I am pleased to say that my reporton tb* prisons in Morocco a"nd the >?lav: trade have'been sent to the Foreijn Olhc by tho Howard Association and tho Ar.U Slavery and Aborhjints' Protection Society, and I have no doubt they will receive, tbattention of Sir K. Grey --Donald Mackenzie, ' Daily Chronicle,' June 13.