The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-25 00:00:00

THE SCHEME OF FREE NEGRO BNIGLINION

MOM AFRICA.

(Prone the New York Herald, July 10.)

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The project of establishing on a large scale the
emigration of negro apprentice* from the Wist Coast of
Africa to the dilapidated colonies of the West Indies to awak-
ening a spirit of opposition in England. An article from the
London Deity Anse, which we publish In another column,
fully confirms the views we have already expressed on this
new phase of the slave trade. It exposes in strong termstha
delusion or the imposition of the scheme. Free emigration from
Africa, where all-labour, with a few exceptions, is slave la-
bour—where for aaggses man has been the great representative
of value, the circulating medium, in fact of the whole coati-
neat—and where there exists no clam betides the Kroomen
that lassexhibited even temporarily a disposition to leave the
country, to a thing that can never occur.
Those who are familiar with the emigration trade as carried
on in the crowded parts of Europe, know full well the de-
ception and fraud that are practised upon the emigrant, and
the stringent laws that have been created there to protect
him. Yet in spite of all these guards and restrictive
laden, great abuse are being constantly committed. What
=then be expected in the distant and barbarous parts of
where the old machinery of the slave trade, and the
old tastes of the native chiefs for it still exist. The London
nnees and Lord Shaftesbury's committee both rejoice in the
discovery that a slave coets 1601.. while a free emigrant will
del but 74 10s. • head, and that slavery cannot succeed
weals:Sy against such competition. This is all very well;
but what become of free emigration" if the emigrants cod
71. Ifis, a head P That is just about the price that is paid
by the slave dealer!. how for negroes on the coast of Africa.
We are told by Baron Humboldt thai. he ha, heard the
West lure Venters discuss, with the greeted aI:Mu:A „._
question whether it was birder for the proprietor not to OrT,
week his slaves, and consequently have to replace them "rid(
lose freqouney, or whether he should get all he could out of
them Ina few years snd then purchase newly-imported
Africans. With a system of negro apprentimahip fort
limited term of years such a question cannot by any posaibl-
thy come up ; the employor will undoubtedly get all he can
out of them in a few yaws., and with the limited intelligence
of the negro and the isolation of the sugar plantation., no
stem* of legislation can be contrived to prevent it. The
history of the sieve trade in Jamaica can give but a faint
idea of the coasnamtion of empties that would take place to
supply the vastly Increased consumption of sugar in Europe.
Yet we are told that for more than one hundred years the
English West India colonies received an average of twenty
thousand Africans yearly, or over two millions of negroea,
and at the cad of that time had a population of only wen
hundred thoosead blacks and mulattoes, free and slave. If
such was the result when the English proprietor had a life
interest in the slave, it is easy to foresee what it would be
when his poseesecip must expire within a fixed term.