Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-04-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the New York Jourusi OF Commerce.
THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE.

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A horrible system OF stealing men and women from
their homes III China, and conveying them to the
West Indies, Peru, Sc, has grown up of late, i'll lieu
OF the African slave trade; and, as might be expected,
like the old slave trade, it is carried on chiefly by
English and American vessels.-tl!e latter mailing in
al! cases, so far as we ARE aware, from the non slave
States, and a large portion of them from New Eng
land and New York. Very likely some of the same
Nl-n are engaged in this ncfaripuS Business, who are
loud in denouncing the Southern man for not turn.
ins a large part of his family out Of doors, or send.
ins them to the SHOWS of Canada. The following OK
tract of a letter which has been handed Us for pubs
LEGATION, shows how the materials of the modern
slave trade the Chinese C0olles-0re obtained. To
fill out the picture, we require Il narrative of the hor-
rors OF the middle passaSe,-which is often fatal To
large numbers,-and then TO see the poor wretches
getting ont Suapo at the Chiucha Islands, which soon
destroys the remainder. We are crcdibly Informed
that u person who lay some days near the three
islands, saw shrsM 1--WE think it wasl of the poor crea-
lures Jump iuto the sea. preferring death by drown
ing, to the slow torture to which their employment
subjected them. IL a white man were us good As Il
negro in the estimation OF the noisy pretended philau-
t~hropists of this day,-or rather, if their humanity
was not a sham, they would utter some voice of 10.
monstrance against the sboininah,e system to which
we have alluded, and which ID carried on in part by
their own neighbors and from their own ports.
Extract eff a Letter dahed
SwoTow, (CHINAl Dec. 10, 1875.
We have now bent our sails and expect to sail for
Cslloa in q few days. We have now Oh board 100
Coolies, and expect to take 200 more. | suppose, if
God preserves our lives, We will arrive in about 20
days. will try to explain what our cargo consists
OF, viz: men, Chinamen Of course, who are called
Cinnamon Coolies. As you have been TO Russia, you
had a sa~mple,-the same a. serfs, or rs our Southern
negroes; but, poor thugs, they are torn from their
parents and friends, and sem; on board Of our own
ship and many other ships of our own country, Us
we'll rs English. They kidusp them and take them
10 the junk, as We call it, and stay there one or two
weeks, till the captain thinks proper to take them Oh
board our ship. They are bought for fifteen or TWEEN
~ dollars per man, and when the captain is ready to
go on board the junk, the mate sings out, Lay aft
here calling the boys by name, and they have to
keep the boat away from the junk for fear of some of
the Coolies friends coming aud taking them AVA
We have one Cooley who has run away from five
different ships. The kindnappers bring out the Coolies
the same as at the slave market ri Mobile, Tor mspeC-
ton. They are then made 10 go through several ex-
ercises, %junping, kicking, Nc., and then inspected by
the doctor. After this they are given new clothes,
and then sen: a board the ship, aud We have to keep
gentry. We have twenty men armed on sentry, night
and day. The Coolies have several times tried to
rice; and if it had not been for two or three Coolies
who made it known, they would have taken the ship.
We have plenty Of ammunition on board, and three
guns which are dashed 30 az TO bear on the slaves if
they should rise. A ship took some from here and
sold them for $3.50 each. This ship expects to stay
ouf hare ahont two yaars. |