The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-02-26
YANKEE SLAVE SALES
Many Northern Fortunes Had Their
Foundations il the Slave Trade,
As SHOWN BY BIsEoP GAMBLER
What the Distinguished Divine
Says on the Subject in Re
cent Article in the
Atlanta Journal.

1t is quite safe. says Bishop Chan
der in the Atlanta Journal, in so far
as this world is concerned, to indulge
popular sins: but it is extremely dam
gerous to practice a vice that has
| gone out Of fashion. The very people
who in the days Of its popularity were
most addicted to it. make the least
allowance for it in others when it has
ceased to be mo!ish.
This view Of the Scuth's connection
with slavery came to me the other
day when read in Charleston, S. c.,
paper the advertisements Of a slave sale
in Boston. copied from New England
paper GATED about the year 1890, if I
fcu.ca.,:;2r correctly. Our typical
South hater reproaches US not because
the South once owned slaves, but be-
cause we had them last. That is the
head and front Of our offending. !.
Here is an advertisement from the
Independent Chronicle, dated March
20, 1880:
s'To be Sold Very Cheap, for no
other reason than the wantof employ,
an exceedingly active Negro Boy, aged
Is. Also a likely Negro Girl, aged II"
Where were the parents of that
boy and chat girl? Had this adyer-
tiser separated parents and children
already? Or, was he about to do so?
In The Continental Journal Of JAN
uary 4, 1871, appears the following:
TO be sold. a hearty, strong negro
wench, about % years Of age, fit for
town or country"
From the same paper, November
25, 1879, is taken this: ITO be sold,
likely negro girl, 16 years Of age, for
no fault save out Of employ"
Again in the same paper, March g.,
179O, was inserted this advertisement:
To be sold, for want Of employment,
an exceedingly likely negro girl, aged
sixteen
It may have been that the adver-
tiser Of November 25;s I779, and that
of March e;,17So, were the same per-
son. If so, his stock had been redue-.
ed, it seems, to one exceedingly ike
ly negro girln Of the age Of sweet six
teen," and she was rather slow sale.
He was evidently not minded to give
her to her parents, if they were free,
nor to present her to their master if
they were still slaves. The relation
Of parents and child it thus appears
cut no figure in the plans of this
thrifty saint. He wanted cold cash
for warm human flesh and blood.
! If this last case seems heartleSs,
what shall be saidof the next? It's
of such an extraordinary nature I
hesitate to transfer it to the columns
of Southern paper, lest I offend a
just sense of propriety. Certainly no
such advertisement ever appeared in
any Southern paper during all the
days Of slavery. I copy it with apol-
ogies. 1t is from The Independent
Chronicle of December %, 17S0, print
ed during the Christmas season, the
glad keynote of which is peace on:
earth and good will to men," 1t
reads: "A negro child, soon expected,
of good breed, may be owned by any
person inclining to take it, and money
with it,
The mother expectant was not to be
parted with by her master: she was of
too good breed" perhaps. But the
unborn child was not to be permitted
to divide attention with her serVile
cares, and thus subtract from her pro-
ftableness. That there might be as
little delay as possible about r!dding
her of the incumbrance a pre- natal
advertisement was used to secure an
owner. Mother and child were to be
parted with all possible haste after its
birth; there was no time to lose.
Slave holders in the South often
brought negroes that they did not
want and sold others that they pre-
ferred to retain in order to preserve
unbroken families: but it may be safe
ly affirmed that no such brutal trans
action as this advertisement proposed
was ever heard Of or ever dreamt OF IN
the South. 1t may well be doubted If
it ever had a parallel ontside Of New
England anywhere on the planet call
ed earth.
These advertisements show clearly
where Mrs. Stowe and other New Eng
land writer's of her type got their
ideas of slavery. They fancied that
the slaves of the South were treated
as formerly slaves had been dealt with
in Boston. Their ghost stories were
compounded from "reminiscences OF
their own ancestors.
1t is fact that Massachusetts, is,
the only state in America that ever
engaged in the slave trade in its cor
porate capacity. This tradeit carried
on with a process that had bondage at
both ends of the line; Indian captiYes
were carried out and sold; while Afri-
can slaves were captured or purchased
and brought in. DR.. Moore says; Tt
Will be observed CnaG JflS lrSL en-
trance into the slave trade was not
private, individual speculation. 1t
was the enterprise of the authorities
of the colony.
Cotton Mather's 'Magnalia" and
the records of the colony are quoted,
passage and page being given to verify
this statement.
Georgia prohibited the slave trade
from the first days Of the colony;
while Massachusetts, allowed it from
l641 to 17sS-the colony itself engag-
ing in the business for part of that
period. Georgia was a slave-holding
commonwealth for about 10 years;
Massachusetts, for 14I years.
When very tardily Massachusetts,
prohibited the slave trade by the act
of 1888, the act was carefully drawn