They are ripened for the New Orleans, or for some other market, whence southern harems are supplied; as, under the Mahometan religion, white Caucasian beauties are sent to the slave marts of the darker-skinned Turk.
Mann draws a parallel between the treatment of enslaved women and historical practices of human trafficking.
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