The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-12-26
Foa rHE MADlsoNiAs.
MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, DEo. 4, 1913.


Defender OF the Faith ana MS opdpish S"'"o''N
Majesty 10 carry on their negro lade IN Tune
Of war under their slave passes and their Save
flags let us go 10 the other side OF the giobe'
and take another look into the great British IN
corporation for the favored few TO trade III India
BY reference 10 Accounts and Papers, nine
volumes, CD relating 10 Colonies, East lndia
Company, Slavery, and Slave Trade-Sesson
A February-l5 August, 1894 vol. xiv. 1884
"sLAyERY IN INDIA.
ssReturn to an order of the Honorable the House oil
Commons dated 9Th March, 1884, ioI Papers rela-
tive to Slavery in India. (la5)
Questions in the East Indies, circulated by the Com
missioners for the Affairs of India"
There are nineteen OF these questions, page 2.
ANSWERS
Answers of Rev. Joseph Fern, in the interior Of
The Kingdom OF Travancore, in Cotagama-popua-
tioD exclusive Of slaves between 5000 and 1000
81 have sometimes assembled hundreds
They present 'ereiehed appearance There Is custom
Of giving them cloth occasionally the only clothing
they am not aware Of any provision for age
sickness.
"1hey are frequently transferred.
The price OF a good slave, male. is about sou
pence. | suppose they seizable for the debts Of
their masters. know Of no restriction. Husbands
and wives are, know separated by sale to different
parties.
g hearJ, while in Travancore, [where he resided
between and years that slaves could not be ma
NUM- ted, but that all slar,s without proprietor rcse
The property Of The Government. The slaves are in the
lowesl possible state of degradation.
9 / was missionary in India
Answers Of L. ii. BABER Esq ''Iavng resided
period OF 80 years, and been actively engaged during
ut TIM. in Han Of ry,,
revenue, police, magstcria judicial and POLITICAL in
various countries where both domestic and agrestic
slavery prevails those countries are
The Bombay Territory, comprising the late
Southern Mahratta States--the western division of
the Madras territories. The laws as administered
sanction aud recognize slavery some slaves have
been compelled by constant i-trea,ment from their
masters in Malabar TO take refuge in the territories
Of Mysore Rajahs. Slaves who had been kidnapped
in Travancore and sold TO British subjects-and Tree.
born children Of various castles of Hindoos subject
TO the Cochin or Trayancore ajahs reduced TO
slavery in the honorable Company's dominions.
Page a " In all the countries above enumerated
the varieties and of domestic slavery are very
numerou-, namely those persons who are the off
spring or descendants OF freebon persons captured
during wars outcast Hinloos who had been sold
into slavery under or by former Governments kid
mapped persons brought by bngaries and other trav
elling merchants from distant inland States, and sold
into slavery; persons imported from the ports in the
Persian Gulf, in the Red Sea- or from the African
coast; persons sold when children by their pa
rents, IN tunes Of famine or great dearth the OIL
spring of iegltimate connexions; persons who in
consideration OF sum OF money, or in the discharge
of security for the payment OF debt, have bound
themselves by voluntary contract to servitude eth
er for life or a limited period: all of which have In
former times do prevail, more or less, WHEREBY
er domestic slavery is found but chiefly IN the South
ern Mahratla country, both in the CompaDys and
Jaggheer portion OF 1t.
" In the Dooab, or Southern Mahratta country, the
number Of domestic slaves ! compute al $4,000.
Throughout the Deccan slavery is very prevalent.
ain every Mahra,ta household Of consequence there
are, both male and female, slaves
q In the Zlllah of CaDara the total number of
slaves agrestic and domestic may be fairly computed
at 80 600 in the northern division the slave popula
ton is 50 0.2.
"Domestic slavery being fully recognized by both
the Hindoo and Mahomedan code, as well as by the
usages Of the people, and agrestc pradal slavery
being equally so by the common law, called Desha-
laZy having existed from time lmmemorial, but not
so absolute has obtained since the Malabar Coast
Provinces came under The Companys government.
This evidence OF 7 II. Baber extends through
nearly 26 folio pages.
Next comes, ANSWERS of Col. James Welsh,
page 2s.
1.-THE general condition Of the agreslic slaves is
pad every where. lhey ENJOY Hitle comfort, have
coarse precarous and scanty food bad clothing fire.
quenty none at all, and no provision hat could
learn for old age or sickness The domestic slaves
for the most part better off but still subject to the
despoiic will Of their owners, 10 every thing short Of
Iien-pa. %. They have no particular hours
which they call their own, not any day in the
week set aport for rest or devotion. The lash, or
least coerci,e strokes, are, fear, too commonly
used, and Unfortunately 10 both sexes.n
"Slayes can be and are sold at pleasure" Ills
evidence extends TO page 30
Answer Of A. d Campbell, Esq.
He resided In India twenty-five years, and had op.
portunes Of observing the state of slavery in India
as Secretary member Of the Board of Revenue al
Madras Superintendent Of Police at the Presidency
Registrar, Judge Of circuit in the Provinces principal
Collector, aud Magistrate at Tanjore, &c.
A. ID. CAMPBELL's testimony extends iiom
page 80 TO page 80, and is completely corrobo.
raiiye Of the Rev. Mr.. Fern, of Il. II. Baber.
Esq, Of Col James Welsh, page 81 Answer
of Henry Bevan, % years in actual military
service in India, had excellent opportunities, and
corroborates the foregoing
Page Al Evidence given before the Lords
Committee, 1880, relating to slavery in the East
Indies, corroborates the preceding.
The evidence on page az has these conclud-
ing lines:
Slaves have been sold in Casara for arrears of
revenue. The persons employed in searching for
gold are the slaves of the proprleors. Page 49,
And again, by reference 10 the "Asatic
Journal" published in London in August, 1898,
Vol XVI. p. 221, we read as follows.
"GoyEREs mt SLAVES IN MALApAR-We know
that there ~ not a servant Of Government IN the
South Of India who is not intimately acquainted with
the alarming fact, that hundreds Of thousands of his
ioic-crtoiues are fettered down for life TO the de-
graded destiny Of 81 very. We know that these I'M
fortunate beings not IN other countries setCs
Of the soil and incapable Of being Transferred al ,ho