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burdensome than working in the fields, has as a rule an sasier
life than she would have bf she had not ba:n sold.
As said above, the sale hus always been technicall
illssal; this has not prevented sales, but it has as a general
rule prevented uppeals for officixi aid to recover child-slaves
might have escaped; ovan should the child run back to her father
home the law could not be invoked to bring her back or to make
his refund the price ratdifed by him for her.
On the other hand
public opinion, if not his om sense of fair dealing, would cause
the child's father to send her back to her purchaser.
To engage in the business of buying and selling
children has always beun actively forbidden by law and to-day whi
cases of this sort come to the knowledge of the authorities the
offenders are heavily puniebed; and similarly with the crime of
buying or selling girls for the purpose of prostitution.
There are two main difficulties in the way of ad-
ministering the law prohibiting the purchase and sale of human
beings.
In the first place public opinion is not yet ripe;
the official agents through whom efforts to administer it would
have to be made would not infrequently be persons who themselves
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