ENGLAND’S WHITE SLAVES.
Eight hundred years ago, says the St. Louis Republic, all of the large cities of England had regular slave markets for the sa'e of white slaves from all parts of the kingdom. -In the ‘Life of Bishop Wulfstand,' the writer says :— * It was a moving sight to see in the public markets rows of young people of both sexes tied together and srld like cattle—men, unmindful of their obligations, delivering into slavery their relatives, and even their own children. In another part of this work it is noted that these slaves were * particularly young women of fine proportions and of great beauty.*
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 1 May 1897, Page 554
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105ENGLAND’S WHITE SLAVES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 1 May 1897, Page 554
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