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Word: goude (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...race. There are slave markets in all the big towns there. The slave traffic starts at sundown. The big chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH WEST AFRICA: The Ebony Market | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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