The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-27
SLAVES UNDER OLD GLORY.
| TIE American Flag Used to Facilitate
the African Slave Trade.

TIE American Flag Used to Facilitate
the African Slave Trade.
There are still 5o,ooo, 900 slaves in AZ
RIGA, and the slave trade in one country
at least is carried on under the protec-
ton of the American flag. 1t is accom-
panied by wholesale bloodshed, piilage
and all the nameaess horrors INSOFAR
able from treating human beings as
chattels.
cent lecture before the American Geo
graphical society by Mr.. He'll Chate-
lain, who is credited with as wide a
knowledge of Africa as any man living.
He was formerly United States COM
mercial agent at Loanda, in West Af-
RIGA. He is the author of several gram
mars of the native languages and has
translated two Of the Gospels into the
native language OF Angola.
1t is in Morocco particularly that the
stars and stripes lend their protection
to the slave trade. Last July the Brit
ish and Foreign Anti-Slavery society
called the attention of cur government
to the fact that McroccanJ Jews, who. by
the laws of Morocco, are not allowed
to hold slaves, place themselves under
the protection of tho American flag
IN order to practice this business. Slave
dealing and slave holding are legal I'M
der Mohammedan rule, and public sales
of slaves take place to-day, even In Tan
gier, almost Within sight of Gibraltar.
In Sus and Terdant small children are
sold and find ready purchasers, not only
among the Meors, but equally among
the Jews In Tripoi the same practice
prevails.
Mr.. Chatelain declares that out of
the 10000, 900 ihabitants Of Africa
go, 600, 900 are slaves. Only few years
ago Explorer Cameron estimated that
I,ooO, 900 human beings are yearly car
ried away into slavery. "If shut my
eyes," he said, 81 see the villages burn
lng, hear the shouts and musketry of
The murderers and the cries OF their
gictimS."
If the estimate of the British and For
eign Anti-Slavery society is correct.
so0, 200 lives are at the present time sac
rificed every year for the maintenance
IF African home slavery.
In the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba
alone, which are entirely governed by
Great Britain, 26O, 900 are held in bond
age. For each slave that reaches The
coast, eight or nine are said to perish on
The way down and in the interior; SO
that the supply of 1000 slaves annually
smuggled into Zanzibar, and OF 11.ooG
muggled into. Arabia, represents the
numbering Of some 60 600 IN the regions
whence the slaves are drawn.
From Zanzibar the slaves can legally
be Transferred to Pemba, whence it is
easy TO ship them to Arabia and Persia
Over 1,5o0 dhows are engaged in this
business. Prom this example of slavery
10 two small islands one may form an
idea Of the enbrnnity of the evil over the
Ehole face Of the Dark Continent.
In Egypt, although the traffic is re-
pressed by English officials, the slave
trade IS by no. mennzsextinct. On the
west coast of the Redsea brisk trade
is CARRIED on with impunity. ''The
says.Mr. J. Theodore Bent.
the explorer of Mashonsland, sis done
in dhows from the Arabian coast, which
come over to the coral reefs of the west
ern side, osteusibly for pearl fishing.
The many little harbors formed in, the
coral reefs offer every assistance to the
Arab dhows. aud the practice viii con-
tinr,e until thu. reconouest Of thss Sou
dan is accomplished. N. Y. journal.