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PRICES OF SLAVES. 
A remark suggested by this list of prices is, that the 
value of human merchandise is determined by its 
present adaptation for consumption. No allowance 
is made for capability of development, intellectual 
or physical. Slave-drivers and slave-holders believe 
as little in a future here as hereafter. 
I give another account of the prices of slaves at 
the principal markets in this part of Africa, and at 
Smyrna and Constantinople. A good male slave 
is sold, at 
Kanou, for 10 or 12 dollars. 
Zinder, the price varies little. 
Mourzuk, for 40 dollars. 
Tripoli, from 60 to 65 dollars. 
Smyrna, 90 to 100 dollars. 
Constantinople, 90 to 100 dollars. 
A good female slave is sold, at 
Kanou, for 32 dollars. 
Zinder, a little more, or the same. 
Mourzuk, 85 dollars. 
Tripoli, 100 dollars. 
Smyrna, 130 dollars. 
Constantinople, 130 dollars. 
This is merely to show the difference of prices 
at these various places of slave traffic, and so 
enable the reader to form some notion of the profits 
of the commerce. 
I am very sorry to hear of the iniquitous manner 
in which slaves are captured for the supply of the 
north at this present time. It appears that, now all 
