now, regardless of the law promulgated in 1910 definitely
affirming its illegality and attaching penalties to be impong
in the event of breach, it remains widespread and is not in
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general opinion a crime.
Although the practice was not entirely limited
to the purchase of infants - cages here occurred in which a
debtor has sold himself and his whole family into slavery
-
yet in the vast majority of cases the subject of sile waS
is a female child,
The conditions of the slavery thus cred
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if so it must be styled,/very different from those rocompany,
slavery in, for example, the West Indies or the former Amerię
colonies. In the first place the child purchased is nearly
always employed to do domautic service, clothei, fed and trek
as one of the family.
Secondly, on reaching marriageable
she is married by her purchaser to someone selected by him;
custor not repugnant in a country in which warriages are arran
regardless of the likes and dislikes of the parties thereto.
Finally, the child sold being always bought by a person of
wealth from one of lass, la thus generally better fad than
would be if she remained at home, and, domestic duties baing 1
burdansome/