Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-28
SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA.
C. P. HUNTINGTON PROPOSES SOME
ACTIVE MEASURES.
Let Human Slavery be Destroyed During
the Last Decade of the Nine
teenth Century.

Coils P. Huntington of New York, for
merly resident of this city and one of
the builders of the Central Pacific Railroad,
has commenced an active campaign against
the African slave trade. The following
documents have been printed and are be-
ing circulated from his Office, accompanied
by colored map of equatorial Africa:
A Few Words to Americans on the Slave
Trade in Africa.
wish to call the attention of the public
to an offense against civilization-the buy
ing and selling of men and women into
slavery. Livingstone, Gordon, Drummond
and many others have fought the battle of
the slave The King of Belgium and some
of the best people of England, under the
leadership of such man as Sir William
Mackinnon, are spending their time and
their money to destroy this fearful traffic
and in its place plant commerce and civil
lization. Good and thoughtful people,
through many generations, have endeav-
ored to destroy this evil, and have so nearly
succeeded that at this time no civilized ma
ton engages IN or tolerates it; and | believe
that if one great, united effort were made,
even the Arab, the descendant of Ishmael
might be made ashamed and afraid to traf-
fic in human flesh. Others have studied
the subject more carefully than l, and have
more leisure to deal with it, but for many
years have deeply felt the wrongs done to
the African race, and nave been deeply in
terested in their future and | ask all good
people to unite in one grand effort against
the slave trade with all its attendant evils
and thus make it possible for the future
historian to say that the blackest crime of
the ages-human slayery-was destroyed
in the last decade of the nineteenth CEN
tury.
do not agree with Francis w. Fox, in
his letter in the Boston transcript of June
13th relying wholly on peaceful measures,
as l think we should fight the devil with
fire." publish the letter, with the article
bv Professor Drummond below referred to-
The proposed line to be policed runs, as
NAV be seen, from Suakim to the mouth of
the Zambesi, the most of the way from 200
to 400 miles from the east coast; that is, it
is to go east from Suakim to Berber on the
Nile, thence up that river to the lakes Vic.
toria Nyanza and Tanganyika, and thence
to lake Nyassa, thence along various water
ways and portages to the ocean at the
mouth of the Zambesi. Nearly all the dis
tance can be traversed by steamers, aud the
land portion can be kept open, at first by
wagon roads, and later by railways, then
with a railroad around the falls of the
Congo, 265 miles (now being built) and
some short portages between the steam
navigation of the Upper Congo and the
line from Suakim to the Zamoesi. With
this line well policed, believe that this
cruel and terrible traffic can be destroyed at
its fountain-head. at the same time a
commerce would be established which
would tend to raise the African from his
low estate, and in time might enable him
to take place among the civilized peoples
of the earth. 1t is worth the trial; and if
all the nations that condemn this evil
would unite and make the improvements
above referred to and police the lines, the
cost would be as nothing when compared
with the amount of good done and we owe
much to the African for the wrongs done
him.
l write this, hoping that it may call more
general attention TO an article written by
Professor Henry Drummond, and pub
lished in the June number of Scrtbner's s
Magazine. | have been permitted to have
this article reprinted, and those wishing to
read it can do so. either by sending for the
magazine or applying to the writer of this
for copy, which will be sent free to any
one desiring it, together with map of
Equatorial Africa l have had prepared
This map will show the country from Sua-
kim, on the Red Sea- to the mouth of the
HalnDeSl, anu from tne mouth OF the Con-
go, on the west coast of Africa, to a con-
nection with the first mentioned line-the
country that has been depopulated by the
Arab slave-hunter, the country that is now
being ravished, and the lines over which
the slaves are being taken to market.
The object of this map is to show the
feasibility of establishing and keeping open
line of communication as indicated
therein. believe that the line as laid
down upon this map, can be policed by
comparatively small number of white men,
carefully selected and trained for this work,
and that they can train the native Africans
in the use of arms, until they, under the
leadership of these white men, become in
vincible when upon their own soil they
fight for life and liberty, not only for them
selves. but for their wives and children.
c P. HUNTINGTON.
% Broad street mills buiIding),
New York, August 1, 1889.