Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-01-22
The Africans by the Wanderer.

ooiihlOH"cdltH Saw tllc AlTlCallS,
Montgomery, or portion of them, sal
to have been brought by the yacht War
dcrer, and writes:
I was carried through "Brown's spec
ulator house" $50 called) on Perry street
In house in the back lot were huddlet
together Mrty-eight matire (Congo) Afr,
cans. Don't shudder and say the "mora
sentiments of Christendom condemn the
traffic" But it is a fact; have seer
the Africans! And it is a fact-the,
; were Africans!
| found them jabbering, in cultural
, sounds. something-I could not com
prehend what. They were nearly all
apparently in good health; fat, sleek
and greasy. In the party were some
five or six men, two or three women
; four or five girls, and the rest boys, OF
what might be called youngsters
They were each clad in common kersey
pants and roundabout, over which they
wore heavy blanket. Women and all
were thus dressed. None had shoes, for
the reason that they could not walk in
them; in fact they could scarcely walk
at all, having been confined and crowded
so close on shipboard.
Most of them were very pert and live
", laughing and talking in their native
tongue, and pointing at and jabbcring
about everything that particularly at
tracted their attention Some of them
had very singularly shaped craniums-
they almost battle description. One
nearly square, one had convex face,
and another sort of double concave
convex head; but most of them had good
heads, large fiat noses, big mouth, front
teeth knocked out, rather small ears, and
quite small hands and feet. Some OF
them were good looking, but others
shockingly ugly; some were what might
be vulgarly called puff" or hog.jawed.
l noticed one, man, who had very high
cheek bones and several scars on his !
face, and appeared very intelligent. He
was "big Chief" no doubt, in his count
ry. / was much surprised at one thing:
they repeated precisely every word said
to them. / asked one, "Where did you
come from?" and he propounded the same
nterrogatory to me, but Of course with.
2Ht knowing the meaning; and in like
| Elat su-iits p8idifis pp8idfs is..,,.
manner many other tmffgsls i'ai saia ct Jon,
- @'a---- la
Not being able to walk, they were
arr'ed in wagon from the railroad de-
'ot to Browns, and thence by wagon to
ne st. Nicholas. l saw strong old far
,ers and sober-sided merchants gazing ,
the sable creatures, some of them hav-
1g, no doubt, holy horror at such a :
ght.
The negroes were wefl skilled in pan. f
mine, and some of them gave unmis- f
'kable signs that they wanted some t,
ing to drink-putting both hands to t.
cir mouths and throwing their heads n
lck. H
The thirty-eight Africans brought here u
ere the share, as I learned, in the ven VI
re of a citizen of New Orleans, and a.
at they cost him, delivered at Savan- u
b, $50 each-only $1,000 for thirty u
sht Africans, sound and able-bodied =
grocs. They were in charge Of Mr.. - =
odnax, who was carrying them to New :.
leans. -,
said above that the negroes were on
i well" So they are, as we'll as could vs
expected; but, as might be conjec-
ed, they were mostly suffering much
m disorders incident to acclimation. OF
sor some time the Africans could not Ne
induced to go on board the boat, and MI
med much frightened at the smoke, WI
Doubtless they had perfect hor- '"e
of travelling on water again, after S''
ing so recently endured long and
Mde1 sea ynyare The 1nannnr u, L.: