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 methods different from those of the first half century of the French occupation of Algeria. Slavery was abolished since 1842, even before it was officially done away with in Algeria; but the many native day labourers, the Khammes, or

colonists of the poorest class, who cultivate the domains of large landed proprietors, are veritable slaves — serfs bound down by the advances made to them by their masters, and which they repay at exorbitant interest from the share of the harvest