The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy, Page 1John Murray, 1840 - 582 pages |
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... settlement of Anguilla , * for the purpose of being carried to Porto Rico , -and from the fact , that there is some Slave Trade with that island , it is not difficult to come to the conclusion , that there has been a traffic in slaves ...
... settlement of Anguilla , * for the purpose of being carried to Porto Rico , -and from the fact , that there is some Slave Trade with that island , it is not difficult to come to the conclusion , that there has been a traffic in slaves ...
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... settlements on the east coast of Africa to their possessions in Hindustan , which , as appears from the accounts of travellers , commenced towards the close of the seventeenth century , and has continued to the present time . In a ...
... settlements on the east coast of Africa to their possessions in Hindustan , which , as appears from the accounts of travellers , commenced towards the close of the seventeenth century , and has continued to the present time . In a ...
Page 87
... settlement , where , by a singular but happy coincidence , she met with her own brother ( who lives upon Hattaba's land ) , who , hearing that she , her daughter , and daughter's children , had been taken in the war , had been a ...
... settlement , where , by a singular but happy coincidence , she met with her own brother ( who lives upon Hattaba's land ) , who , hearing that she , her daughter , and daughter's children , had been taken in the war , had been a ...
Page 120
... settlement at some distance in the interior of Africa , to be sold at Quilimane , there being at that time several slavers lying in the river . These unfortunate beings were consigned to a person holding a high civil appointment under ...
... settlement at some distance in the interior of Africa , to be sold at Quilimane , there being at that time several slavers lying in the river . These unfortunate beings were consigned to a person holding a high civil appointment under ...
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... settlements , and who stated , from the testimony of a factor who had lived ten years in the country , that the discerning natives accounted it their great- est unhappiness ever to have been visited by Euro- peans . Dupuis , in his ...
... settlements , and who stated , from the testimony of a factor who had lived ten years in the country , that the discerning natives accounted it their great- est unhappiness ever to have been visited by Euro- peans . Dupuis , in his ...
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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.