The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-30
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~ -FIA ArlThe Slave Trade ; - IL
Notwithstanding allthe efforts which have
been made by modern civilization to put, ayls
end to the slave trade, it seems, as fast as
in one locality, to make It's {ar.
pearance in another, and sometimes in a
more aggravated form than ever before,
Thus we find that the attention of the Bri-
tish Parliament has lately been called by
MIR. Fowler, one of the members of the
House OF Commons, to what he alleges is
the systematic enslavement of Caffre chill
dren by the Beers Of the Transvaal Repub-
lie, by whom he asserts that 5000 Caffre
children are now held in slavery, the result
of raids carried on against hostile tribes.
The enslavement of these children is de-
clared to have been effected under circum-
stances of great atrocty, and to have been
IN contravention of the treaty acknowledge
ing the independence of the Republic.
The "Boers, or "Boors," is the designa-
ton of the colonists of those Dutch settle
ments in Southern Africa, which were es-
tablished in the beginning of the seven
teenth century, when the Netherlands were
the ruling maritime power In 1914 the
Cape colony of the Beers became British
possession, though the Beers have never
been reconciled to the change. The Caffres
have long ago been subject of dispute be-
tween the Beers and the British, the latter
colonists. who regarded them rs treacherous
savagcs. The emancipation of the negro
slaves, i'll 1885, induced the Dutch farmers
to seek different location, and their migra-
tlons finally ended in the Vaal country,
where they founded, in the Southern par
of Africa, what is called the Transyaal Re-
public, which occupies an elevated table
land, and contains an area of more than
oO,O0O square miles, and also the Orange
River country, somewhat smaller. What is
said in the British Parliament about the en-
slavement Of Caffre children, and the afro
cities practiced by the Beers, must be taken,
of course, with due allowance, for the fact
that the British and the Beers in Africa are
old enemies, and that it was not till the
Caffre war Of 1851 taught the British Co
vernmcnt the necessity of the united action
of the entire white population, in order to
save Southern Africa from European c;-ili-
cation, that wiser and more conciliatory
counsels towards the Dutch began to pre-
vail.
Whatever may be the foundation for the
allegations in regard to the Transvaal Re-
public, it would seem, by disclosures from
other sources, that Africa still carries on,
within herself, that trade in slaves which,
from the earliest records, has been the
principal traffic i'll that country. A recent
report read at the annual meeting of the
English Ladies' Negroes Friend Society
fiives some frightful details respecting the
internal slave trading on the East coast of
Africa. A Mr.. Men0n, OF the Island of
Reunion, who has been engaged in pro-
noting what is euphuistcally called "Afri-
can emigration to the French colonies, ~
says that he lately saw depot where 500
negroes were exposed for sale. They were
ne,dcd IN on enclosure, Without food or
cover; many who were dying of hunger
were chained to already dead companions; !;
some of them were prevented from stray
ing by forked stick of wood attached to
their necks, and others were chained to-
gether in parcels of twenty. Mr. F. Saul
ter. German missionary. says that 'sslave
trading is going on in Kordofan and Teg-
gele, and on large scale in Galabat, (neu-
tral territory between SEMINAR and Abys-
sinia,) where thousands of Gallas are sold
and smuggled through the Egyptian terri
tory or transported by the Red Sea-" Re.
cent letters of DIR. Livingstone confirm
these stories. This infamous traffic in
blacks is conducted by blacks now as it al
ways has been, and will continue to be, un-
til civilization shall pervade and reclaim
from barbarism that benighted continent.
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