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... Spanish Treaty unavailing - Case of the Vencedora - Piracy- Profits of Slave Trading will overcome force . 73 203 Chap . 4. SUPErstitions and Cruelties of THE AFRICANS 226 Early Authorities - Dahomey - Ashantee " Customs ” - Dupuis - Mr ...
... Spanish Treaty unavailing - Case of the Vencedora - Piracy- Profits of Slave Trading will overcome force . 73 203 Chap . 4. SUPErstitions and Cruelties of THE AFRICANS 226 Early Authorities - Dahomey - Ashantee " Customs ” - Dupuis - Mr ...
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... Spanish treaty , has materially increased ; " and he adds , " I hesitate not to say that , so long as the increasing prosperity of this island creates a demand for slaves , the traffic will be carried on to the same and even a greater ...
... Spanish treaty , has materially increased ; " and he adds , " I hesitate not to say that , so long as the increasing prosperity of this island creates a demand for slaves , the traffic will be carried on to the same and even a greater ...
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... Spanish Island of Porto Rico , where slaving adventures have latterly been fitted out , with increased activity . " § A gentleman on whom I can rely , has informed me that in November , 1836 , he saw two slave - vessels fitting out in ...
... Spanish Island of Porto Rico , where slaving adventures have latterly been fitted out , with increased activity . " § A gentleman on whom I can rely , has informed me that in November , 1836 , he saw two slave - vessels fitting out in ...
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... Spanish flag . " But , to our astonishment and regret , we have ascertained that the Anaconda and Viper , the one on the 6th , and the other on the 10th current , cleared out and sailed from hence for the Cape de Verde Islands , under ...
... Spanish flag . " But , to our astonishment and regret , we have ascertained that the Anaconda and Viper , the one on the 6th , and the other on the 10th current , cleared out and sailed from hence for the Cape de Verde Islands , under ...
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... coast of Africa , and delivered her up to the Spanish authorities . Class A , F. S. , 1838-9 , p . 102 . Referring to 1837 and 1838 . greatest reliance on the veracity of the gentleman from whom 44 THE SLAVE TRADE . دو.
... coast of Africa , and delivered her up to the Spanish authorities . Class A , F. S. , 1838-9 , p . 102 . Referring to 1837 and 1838 . greatest reliance on the veracity of the gentleman from whom 44 THE SLAVE TRADE . دو.
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The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy. (Second Edition.) [With a Map.] Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Affichage du livre entier - 1840 |
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agriculture amount annually appears arrived Ashantee Badagry Benin Bights of Benin Bornou Brazil Brazilian British brought Cape Coast Cape Coast Castle Captain captured caravan cargo carried chiefs Christian civilised Class coast of Africa colony Commissioners considerable Coomassie cotton Cuba cultivation deck Denham despatch effect embarked European exported extent Fernando Fernando Po Fezzan flag Foulah Gambia gold Gold Coast Government Governor Havana horrors human imported increase inhabitants interior island king Kordofan labour Laird land legitimate commerce letter liberated Africans Lord Lord Palmerston manufactured ment merchants middle passage miles misery missionaries mortality nations natives negroes Niger number of slaves object obtain population port Portuguese present produce purchase quantity Report river says schooner Senegal settlements Shendy Sherbro ship Sierra Leone Slave Trade slave-vessels slaves on board soil Spanish sufferings suppression taken tion tons town traffic Travels treaty vessel victims visited voyage whole wretched
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Page 501 - He did not see why true believers, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come...
Page 217 - ... such negro or mulatto on board any such ship or vessel, with intent as aforesaid, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate, and on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he may be brought or found shall suffer death.
Page 529 - For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast ; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction : for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
Page 456 - If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which they prescribe, some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture, from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret.
Page vii - But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith. Restore.
Page 455 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Page 529 - For the seed shall be prosperous ; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew ; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Page 221 - American dominions, has resolved to co-operate with His Britannic Majesty in the cause of humanity and justice, by adopting the most efficacious means for bringing about a gradual Abolition of the Slave Trade throughout the whole of his dominions.
Page 150 - There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents of the casks, and on the mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled with nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished!
Page 150 - ... them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents of the casks, and, on the mid-passage, found to their horror that they were filled with nothing but salt water All the slaves on board perished ! We could judge of the extent of their sufferings from the sight we now saw.