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Sudan / South Sudan: 'The Slave Market at Khartoum', G. Durand, 1892

Sudan / South Sudan: 'The Slave Market at Khartoum', G. Durand, 1892

A drawing from 'The Graphic', London, January 16 1892. The accompanying text states: 'The chief slave market consists of a large stone building with a verandah. The slaves are generally brought out onto the verandah, where a group of regulars sit smoking their nargilehs and drinking coffee. The slaves are mostly girls from ten to sixteen years of age'.

Drawn by G. Durand from a sketch by Father Oberwalder who, with two nuns, recently escaped from the Mahdists.

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