Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-09

shacklrd together ?'-'Not the little ones.'
Are those slaves upon their passage never
cleaned out I'll fancy not, because il you
clean them out, where would you put them ?
You dare hotsbring many Of them upon the
deck, because, seeing the water, many Of
them would be tempted TO jump overheard
and even TO drink salt water; consequently.
all that you have to do is to9 crowd all sail
and get out of the way Of the cruisers, and
look as quiet and as nasty as you can. ] may
mention, that it has happened that on the ar
rival of a vessel, she has been found in so
filthy and destitute a condition, that after I'M
loading her cargo she has been cast adrift.'
'Iou prefer importing boys and girls because
they epack closer? 2 Yes; they are much
less in stowage much less in volume. Some
of the American vessels are about seven to
eight feet between decks; some are seventy
two inches between the beams. They have
generally three tiers, one on the ground and
two above DO you mean that in the height
Of seventy-two inches, that is to say six feet,
there are three tiers'of slaves l'-'Generally;
the lower ones have a kind of mats made of
banana stalks You have frequently seen
this with your own eyes l'-'Yts; anybody
may see it in Brazil, but in Rio you would
not see it now, because very few are now
landed in Rio Nv hat is the Youngest age
at which you import the Negro ?'-'They
never brought them so young at any time as
theyEdo al present, because the stowage was
not so valuable before. The cruisers have
made the stOwage so valuable How young
do you bring them now !-'The smaller they
are the better you can carry them. ] once
bought a little chap just like "A dolly he could
not. from his teeth, have been more than six,
perhaps not so much he was too small to
work. Are not a great portion of the cru
elites and deaths in the course Of the slave
trade to he attributed to a want Of water p
Perhaps more from that than anything else,
because in the tropics "A very little food will
support the system when the system is in a
state of torpidity, and when air is exceeding
ly foul. the functions of life become very con-
siderably diminished absorption takes place
Of any portion of fat they have, and they can
resist the want of food for some time, but the
want of water is a thing that cannot be resis-
ted 1T is in order TO evade the activity of
the British cruisers that your people who are
engaged in the slave-trade, are obliged to stint
the slaves in water ?'-'Of course And
that they are also obliged TO crowd them into
such small spaces l'-'lt arises probably from
that. ! do not know whom to blame for that
whether it is the captains, or The agents, or
Tux wv hOlo1 VI NUM- = bhN Nt'Nhlih '"NJ Nv
bring an immense number in a very small
space. | have known $50 brought in a nine
ty tons schooner what do you reckon TO
be the average voyage from the coast OF Atri-
ca to Brazil ?-'At the present Time yon are
obliged TO go in such a zig-2ag manner that
what ought to be twenty days is sometimes
ninety days. And it is when the voyage is
so long that the slaves die ?'-'Ges. They
get a drink of water once a day. In a state
of Inactivity you may exist upon that for
twenty days, perhaps, as | know from my
own experience; but not much longer than
twenty days, because the system fails rapid
ly after that. 1t is 100 horrible 10 describe
the effect of the want Of water no person can
have an idea of it without feeling From
what part of the coast of africa is the general
importation FL would beg leave to decline
saying that, because the moment that is known
your cruisers will be twice as energetic upon
that one point, and it will do mischief to some
one. ] have got TO live in the country. HUI
man life is not valued very highly in Brazil.
Any person making himself troublesome mp.
on the slave-trade would be Immediately
shot 'What is the condition of the slaves
when they are landed now r-'There are
some with more iron constitutions than 9TH
ers but to see them, they look HORRIBLE
ne ZONES OF the Knees SldUu OUT, anu IOOh
like large nobs the calf of the leg has disap-
peared it looks more like the leg of a mon
key than any thing else, and you can count
all the bones. The abdomen is very much
bloated, and there is an imbecility in the eye;
in fact, nature is reduced TO the lowest point
Have you seen them standing against a wall"
Yes; but you feed them, and put them in
warm baths and by doing that they get round
after a little time Are they usually cover
ed with sores !'-'Yes, when they are jam
med together; and there is a species of itch
that breaks out upon them, and blotches of a
large size break ont upon them 'Have you
any knowledge what the mortality of slaves
employed on a sugar estate is ?-'No. | can
not say but since your cruisers have been on
the coast, their systems suffered so much
from the shock of coming over, that many OF
them die so much so, that there are now no
second retailers of slaves as there used to be,
because they die so frequently in the first
two or three months. | have known thirty
leave the coast, and go twenty miles up into
the interior, and fifteen have died ; and | have
known 100 landed, and eighty-four of those
have died before they got into the Interior
What was the cause of that !'-'They were
in such a dilapidated condition, nature was
completely overcome by the passage. Are
the slaves that are imported into Brazil sold
openly in the maTkell'-'Not exactly we
have not markets for slaves as you have here
for different articles I; they have been abolish
ed in Rio; but if you go to the neighbour
hood of Rio the slaves are sold openly
Are there barracoons in the same way as
there are in Cuba ?'-'Yes, you may term
them barracoons.'
PrgfiS Of the Stare Trade.
DO you consider that the African slave
trade. as at present carried on, is at present a
very profitable trade FL should say, from
what know of generally, that