Slave Trade in the Canal Zone

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 10, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 28.

Slave Trade in the Canal Zone

That there is a regular slave trade in young American girls in Colon and Panama and along the Canal Zone is stated by Rev. Williams P. E. Ferguson, editor of a prohibition organ, the Defender. He gives specific cases and conclusive proof of the awful social conditions, having himself seen many very young American girls there who had been stolen from their homes in America. One saloon and den of vice in Colon is conducted within fifteen feet of the post-office, in a building owned by an employee of the United States. Efforts are being made to bring the matter before the President and Congress.