ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION. The first part of this work, delineating the extent and the horrors of the African Slave Trade, was published early in 1839; it was then my intention to add the other part, containing "The Remedy" in the form of a second volume, but for reasons not necessary to detail, I found myself obliged to defer its publication for a longer period than I had at first proposed. Meanwhile, fresh sources of information opened themselves to me, and I have thus been furnished with so much new matter, that I have found it necessary (another edition being also required) to republish the first volume in its present shape. Those even who have fully possessed themselves of the case as it then stood will not I hope refuse it some further examination now; I have added to every part the results of the most recent information; have, in some respects, revised and perfected the calculations, and have subjoined a chapter on a topic which strictly belongs to the State of Africa, and is in every sense closely allied to the Slave Trade, the Superstitions and Cruelties existing in that country. A "Remedy" is almost as urgently demanded for these as for the Traffic itself. This Remedy, as it presents itself to my mind, is unfolded in Part II. of this volume. I have judged it expedient, in order to condense into one view all the facts appertaining to this part of my subject, to incorporate the substance of the chapter, entitled "Commercial Intercourse with Africa," into this latter portion of the work, and I submit my views to the consideration and correction of all who are interested in the cause, with the trust that, if accepted in Theory, they will obtain a cordial and persevering co-operation in Practice. |