Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-07-28
SLAVERY IN AFRICA.
SIR GEORGE GOlDlE HAS ENDED TIN
WESTERN SUDAN.

The Emperor of sokoto's Trails In Bu.
man Beings No Longer Countenanced.
Crushing the Tyrants of Benin and
Nupe-Africa's Finest Race.
Amid all the evil and the good that
men are doing in Africa-and they are
doing much of both-amid the wranples
of states and the clash of powers ope
achievement of vast beneficence has
been performed SO unostentatiously that
it is actually in danger of being over.
looked and ignored by the world.
British army advances a few leagues
up the Nile, and Europe is convulsed.
tributary Boer colony defies its suzerain
power, and the world looks on breath.
less. The titular sultan of Zanzibar
emancipates the slaves held in his own
palace and the few roods of land adioip.
ing still left to him of his domain. and
long dispatches are cabled and leading
articles written about it. But when a
quiet, matter of fact administrator who.
as Kipling sang of "Bobs," does not
advertise, abolishes slavery among the
millions of the finest native race in the
whole continent and cuts up by the
roots one of the greatest slave trading
organizations in the world, belated ref.
erence is made to the fact in an obscure
line or two. The name of Sir George
Goldie is not the most familiar in the
world, and the statement that he has
abolished the slave system imposed by
the Foulahs upon the Houssas may not
convey striking significance to the av-
erage ear. Yet there has not for many
day come out of Africa worthier bit
of news.
The western Sudan-that is, the Nj.
ger country, extending from the shores
of the gulf of Guinea to the famous and
mysterious city of Timbuktu-is one Of
the richest and most populous regions of
all Africa and is occupied by the best
OF all the native tribes. Among these
latter first place must be given to the
Houssas. Physically and intellectually
they show a magnificent development
They are at once brave and docile and
have an industrial capacity Of very
high order. There are not many finer
troops in the world than the Houssa
regiments of the British army. But
these people and the neighboring tribes
were long ago conquered in "holy
war" by the Mohammedan Foulahs,
semi-Arab tribe led by one Othman
Dan Fodio, and they have since been
held i'll subsection to them, largely
through religious superstition. The sue
cessors of Fodio, the present emperor
being the eleventh, have thus reigned
over a vast empire of incalculable
wealth. Kano, in Sokoto, is its capital,
OF which place the commercial impor'
tance may be reckoned from the fact
that its central market place is thronged
by daily average of from $4,000 to
10000 traders from all parts of the
continent-Marocco, Egypt, Zanzibar,
the Kongo, Angola and the Cape-and
its cloth factories clothe more than one
half the people of the whole western
and central Sudan.
The curse Of this region has been the
slave system imposed by the Foulahs'
not only upon the Houssas, but upon
all neighboring tribes and even extend
ing to remote parts of the continent
The raiding and the trafficking i'll slaves
maintained by the emperor OF Sokoto
has for years amounted to more than
that of all the rest of Africa put TO-
gether. The system has been Responsible
for countless horrible excuses, such as
those of Nupe and Benin, and has
served more than all else to prevent the
progress of that part of Africa toward
high civilization.
Now, happily. it is ended. The Bit
ish administrator in Nigeria, Sir George
Goldie, has ended it once and forever,
he has crushed tho bloody tyrants U,
Benin and Nupe with a strong manu-
and has seut forth an edict, which VIII
be obeyed, that there shall be no molo
slave raiding or trading in all that laho
The Foulahs, who form scarcely one
sixth Of the population, will no longer
be allowed to tyrannize over tho HouS-
sas. The latter, some IL, 900, 600 strong,
will enjoy the blessings OF freedom alu
good government and may coniiden'iy
be expected to attain fine degree u
civilization. There has not been great
er work done for humanity i'll the daih
continent since the achievements VI
Gordon and Baker in the eastern SUDAN
than that done in Nigeria by Sir oeors0
Goldie New York Tribune.
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