The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-09-20

in the West Indies He made several VOYAGES after that
and usually found ready sale for them AS the num-
Der OF Indians In the West Indies became more reduced
the demand for negro saves to take their place became
more pronounced.
The first attempt made by England to establish sys-
tematic trade in slaves was in 1918 when paent was
granted to Sir Robert Rich who later became the Earl of
Warwick and some others for this purpose 1t did not
prove profitable and the charter lapsed.
INTRODUCED In VIRGINIA.. Slavery was bound to come
to Virginia course OF time anyway If the Dutch trader
had not brought them in somebody else would have
done So There is more less of mystery surround
ing this ship
John Rolfe writes in 1919 "About the last of August
came in Dutch of ware, that sold us 20 negars I"
These negroes had been captured twice. the Gold
Coast Of Africa and in the Indies The identity of
this slave ship still disputed 1t is not impossible that
she was. of those regulary commissioned vessels
which the Earl of Warwick and other Englshmen sent to
the seas at least so thinks Dr. Channng but
that the best theory is that Dutch ship sent
out by traders under sort of authority from
the Prince of Orange Brown says that hehas nowhere
seen it stated in any contemporaneOus document that
these were the earliest importations of negroes.''
As slaves were introduced into the Somers Islands as
early 1916, it is by impossible that few may
have been brought to jamestown before 1919 Though
there pressing demand for hem those that were
brought met with a ready saess Negroes COM
manded real sale in Virginia rum and sugar.
INCREASE In SLAVE TRADE Though England the
last to enter the traffic in slaves she became the
leader in this industry 1t is not just certain what part
Queen Elizabeth took in this trade She is said to have
issued patent to John Hawkins in the Both year of her
reign but it is not certain that he made voyage
der this patent.
Charles l. in 1881 granted charter to a second African
company and the rights of this being surrendered in
1888 charter was granted to company known the
ROYAL African Company and to this was given the exc-
sive right of slave trade with the coonIss ionren e
Virginia was indebted for most of her slaves up to the
close eff the seventeenth century White serytude now
began to give way to slavery 1t the policy OF the
King and of the Duke of York at the head of this
pany encourage slavery in the colonies by enactmens
that off the supply Of ndented servants In 1898 the
monopoly of the Royal African Company ceased and slave
trade was thrown open to the colonies. -
With the slave trade thrown open to the colonlsts New
England became large participant in this traffic and
Boston and Bristol became the chief centers OF the trade
A shin would load with rum in New England which it
would exchange for negroes IN Africa. IneSe negro
slaves would be brought to the West Indies OF the South
ern colonies and exchanged for moaSSes tobacco the
molasses being taken back to New England and the to-
bacco to Europe Charlestown, Baltimore and Norfolk
were also participants The chief centers in England
were London Liverpool and Bristol The slave trade was
nrobabv at its height Just before the Revolution when
Great Britain had hundred and nnety-two ships en-
poyed and transported fortyseyen thousand negroes
slaves imported up to this time British subjects brought
in about half No small portion OF these were carried oy
the ships of the colonies.
The allowance of head right of fifty of land for
each person brought into Virginia extended to ne
groes brought in after 1885 Some old families IN Vr-
nia secured their large tracts of land by means OF thee
head rights. !, ,,r e A. u
seyenteeth century the labor of the colonies was almost
wholly of white people While there were twenty brought
over by the Dutch ship and the Treasurer brought all
other in the same year no more brought for almost
decade In 1924 there just twenty-five negroes IN
Virginia including children that had been born there
and five women 1t would seem from this that IN Ihe
FIVE wears but one negro had died. the rate OF mortality
not being onetenh great among the whites as the
negro did not need accimatng. -. !.
In 1929 Capt Gray brought about twenty negroes Ill
the shin Foatune which he had captured from another
vessel on the Angola coast and brought to Virginia lie
exchanged them for eghtyve hogsheads and hve DUTIES
of tobacco..i
\. John s Bassett Slavery and Servitude in N c pp -6