The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-07-28
The slave Trade.

A., intsrusi slave-trade is the necessary con-
.....ne. Of slavery wherever Il exists. When
-, b.eome meTchantable commodities or pro-
-, A. il is impiously termed, they are sub
=, "a Al Us Incidents,-to the degradation Of
s-i.snd be0uest. and 10 the cruelty OF separation
-, Linsrel and friends. In the United States
!, ]. rsso-,ed iaat 81, 900 slaves change hands
- wear; aud, in other slaveholding coun-
- IL i probable that a pFOPOrtionate number
.g,F-r the same SAD fate. But though, in some
al 4, fsstures, nothing can exceed the revolving
cb,rse,sr Of this traffic, il yields, in the sum Of
4, horrors, 10 the foreign African slave trade,
,,beb 5 carried Oh chiefly to supply Brazil and
n, spanish colonies with slaves.
Ia 1. impossible 10 arrive with accuracy at
n. numbsr of slaves exported from Africa,
,se, Great Britain, under the influence of hu-
,7spe and Christian feeling, was led - abolish
a tbr1ughout her dOminiOns. A tabular state
U,ut. h0EeVer, drawn up with great care, Mas
Id bsfore a select committee Of the House OF
commous, appointed last year to consider the
b.st means for providing for the final extinction
of the slave trade, from which we gather the
foloUing particulars, viz; That from lo0S 10
1919. no ess than 2 $50 900 negroes were ex-
ported from Africa; Of these, Csc, 900 were Ia
ksa 10 Brazil, 6l5, 600 to the Spanish colonies,
sad So, 30 TO other countries. The Casualties
Of ths ui1dle passage are stated 20 have amount
q e the frightful sum Of 433 200! From the
year 1919, When the cruising system was first
pat in operation against foreign slave traders,
u lS47, the number Of negroes exported from
Ai1cs amounted TO Ass SOC, which are thus
ds.nbuls6 .-Brszil, 1921, 500; Spanish colo
uss, s3l rs; deaths on the middle passage,
c. .295; and captured by British cruisers, H.
so. According 10 this table, the total number
Of Afrca8s imported into Brazil during the last
forty ysaTs, has been sol 500; into the Span
ish colonies, ,f46,0 or; into other countries,
$4,000, mortality during the middle passage,
LII .29s; and Captured by British cruisers,
snes The year 1919, IL $50; making a grano
i0lAl Of 5ois 400, rs the victims Of the foreign
Afrcsa slave usde, from 1907 10 lS47.
II there be added 10 this truly appalling state.
nsHf the dreadful fact, 50 clearly demonstrates
b. he ate Sir 7. +. Buxton, in his work on
the slave trade, that "for every slave embarked
s8s IL sacrificed, in the wars connected with
heir osglure-in their march from the interior
q the coast, and during their detention at IN,
bsrrscOOns-we have a picture presented TO u
Of hUman guilt and human suffering, which hss
scarcely : parallel in the most savage period
Of ths history Of our race. Let the fact be en-
grsEen % our memories that the victims Of the
slave trace, during the last forty years, have
been upwards Of 10000, 600; that one-half OF
his namber persisted in Africa; that one-quar-
Ter o. ulose embarked for the slave markets per.
ishec u .ae middle passage; that Of those who
survived these horrors, a considerable number
Psnshec curing the process Of seasoning; ano
tAsl he remainder are doomed to a life Of deg
fadall0n and s0ficring, and premature grave
IsHi. AHHEGl Report Of The British and FOreign
Ara sia5sTy Society.