Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-02-10
The Results OF African Labor ina
the New World.

ing from twenty to thirty degrees on each
aide of the equator, which contained the
richest and most prolific soil to be found on
the face of the globe, but the immense re-
scuurces Of which, without the employment
of African labor, could not be developed
Africa was populous, teeming with millions
Of the darkest skinned and widest tribes,
whose prisoners captured in war we're con-
tlnually destroyed. When field was O.
pened in the hot ATTITUDES Of America the
only climate suitable for their employment
their captives, instead of being killed
were purchased and sent hither, where their
services have been attended with the most
| important results.
| The negro races Of Africa are estimated
at about 80, 600, 900. Since the commence
ment of the slave trade only about FIVE mil
lions have been imported into the New World
which amounts to but small per centage
of the numbers slain in their savage warfare.
And the expectation of the five millions was,
to great extent, a mere question of death
or deportation. Of the whole number Of
Africans introduced into the New World,
LOO, 900 were landed in the British West
India possessions, 375 600 Cup to 1909 in
the United States, and the remainder were
sent to other European possessions in the
New World. African labor in the tropical
regious of the West has done more to ad
vance and extend commerce and the arts of
civilization over the world than any other
cause that we know of; and to day ci7lliza-
ton is from one to two centuries ahead Of
what it would have been without it-be-
cause white labor could not have accomplish
ed what it has performed.
| There exist at the present time in the
New World. including the United States,
Brazil. Cuba and Porti Rico, about ,000,-
600 of African slaves, the results Of whose
labor exceed those of any similar namber of
persons, white Or black, bond or free, to be
found anywhere else on the face eff the earth.
Without descending into particulars, we
may state that the annual value Of products
raised by African slave labor amounts to
not less than S400, 900, 900, nearly $240,
loco, 900 of which is supplied by the United
Estates. In this estimate we include cotton
coffee, sugar, tobacco, rice, naval stores and
Indigo. The consumption Of these articles
by the white races Of the temperate latitudes
has become an immense necessity. Of the
general aggregate, the cotton crop Of the
United States for $4,000, estimated at A.,
100000 bales may be put down at $780,
1000, 600 The transportation Of these i'm
mense supplies, their transformation BY man
ufacturing processes, end their tedistribu
ton, In changed forms, give employment to
millions of tons CT shipping, and afford sup
port to millions upon millions of free white
laborers all over the civilized world. BY
the Increase and expansion Of commerce
civilization has been spread to the remotest
corners of the globe, while steamships have
been multiplied, railroads extended, and
Communication of all kinds increased to an
extent they would not have reached in cen
fury without the Development Of tie agricul-
tural resources Of the tropics in the West by
African labor.
Aud yet we find the monstrous doctrise
taught that Africtn labor is inimical to the
free labor of the North.
The growers of grain, on which cattle and
hogs are fattened for Southern consumption
the ship caulker and Joiner in Maine; the
grass grower and hay cutter of New Eng
land. whose remuneration is derived from
a Southern market; the boot and shoe ma
kers of Lynn and Natick; the draymen and
other laborers of the North, are taught to
believe that African labor is an enemy to
their work. Hence we find that though
the South takes from three-quarters to four
ffths Of all the boots and shoes made at the
North, and which sustains al immense hide
and leather trade in New York, the work
men of Lynn and Natick, Massachusetts,,
after working all day in making brogan shoes
for the negroes of the South, 60 at night to
abolition prayer meetings, to join in suppl
cations to the Most High that He would In
terfere to deprive them and their families of
and of bread, by destroying
African labor and The Union together.
# African labor is evil. the North and
the civilized world have extracted an i'm
mense and incalculabe good out of it. This
may be said not only of the whites, but of
the blacks also The cotton bales of the
United States have kept England and Amer
lea at peace for forty years, and prevented
the whites from mutual slaughter Eman-
cipation is not only the destruction of Atrl.
can labor, but the determination of the me-
groes themselves All those intercepted,
communities of the New World in which e'
Emancipation has been enforced have gone to
the dogs, while the blacks among them are
gradually dying out; those, on the contrary
which have preserved African labor continue
to be prosperous, powerful and progressive;
Thus, the island of Cuba, though oppressed
by en- efete monarchy, is worth more to its
government and to the world at large than
all the other West India islands put togeth-1
err
Among all the South american States
Brazil is the only one which has maintained
a stable and prosperous government, and she
is the only one which has preserved African
labor. In the Spanish South American Sta
ties. though sadly misgoverned, African IL
Dor was Preserved while under the rule
Spain, and it gave stability and prosperity
sheir provincial rule, Objectionable though ID
was in other respects When the provinces
threw off the Spanish yoke, their people
we're seized with tha fanaticism of the age,
and destroyed African labor, which drove
out Spanish capital, and left the. people
prev to anarchy and revolution. Venezuela
abolished by emancipation African labor
Nobody afterwards wanted to work but al
wanted to rule-blacks, whites, and half
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