The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-25
IN VIVID CoL0RS
 SLAVERY IS POINTED

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 One of the English missionaries who has just returned from an ex- tended tour of that section of Dark est Africa known as Angola. contrib utes the latest testimony regarding the horrors of slavery in Portuguese Africa.
 On his first journey through the Angola Livingston saw and subse- quently described the slavery of the blacks and some few years later Commander Cameron gave corrob- Harding trayersed the great slave route and wrote graphic descrip- ton of it's horrors. Now comes Crarles A. Swan, an English mission ary, who in his book, ''The Slavery of today" testifies that 1t exists there in form so revoiting as to be well nigh incredible.
 MT. Swans narrative has an advan" tage over the others in that 1t iy most recent and that 1t is the result of a more thorough knowledge of the subject As a missionary he had spent twenty three years in Africa, chiefly in the region dominated by Portugal. Returning to his London home for a brief fourlough, he went out again one year ago with the ex- press purpose of visiting all the mis- sion stations in Angola and collecting the latest facts about the slave trade. His book. which has just been pub lished in Glasgow by Pickering & Inglis, shows that slave labor and slave traffic continue unabated. He tells of natives. men, women and children, being torn from their pri- native homes, marched away to some distant point under heavy guard, kept in shackies at night, and then either set to work on plantations or driven to the coast and sold at 50 much per head by their captors and brought by their purchasers to the cocoa islands of San Thome and frin- cipe, and from which they never re-- turn.
 On the very day after leaving the coast near Benguella Mir. Swan wrote in his dairy:
 signs of the diabolical traffic were met with all adong the path-shack- les. bleached bones, and the emaeiated body of a young lad who had been left to die that morning. as well as the slaves themselves in the caravans we met. My men picked up ninety two shackles for legs, arms or neck. without leaving the path to look for them. Most of these shackles were comparatively new, and a great many of them still contained the sap
 
 of the wood.
 "Of course the trader and the plant CT know very well how things are. hut in their own interests they fan the flame of indignation against Eng land in the hearts of those in Por- tugal who nave never had an oppor- tunity of looking into the true con- dItion of things for themselves. Let us then sympathize with the sincere. though misinformed. in Portugal, but let there be no quarter shown to those who roll in riches at the expense ot the blood of their fellow men and women"
 From the Protestant missionaries whom he was able to reach, MT. Swan obtained the following state ment. The missi ionaries who signed the statement were American, Eng fish. Swiss, and two other nations os British Guiana Five of these, " MT swan asserts, have been con- nected with the province for more than twenty years, four for over seventeen years, three for over ten years. and the rest from two to eight years"
 The statement which was furnished to MT. swan by these missionaries and which he incorporates in his 1 book. Is as follows:
 lst. Natives have been bought and sold, and still continue to be bought aud sold, though less openly in recent years. After the war of 1902 pur' chased natives were required to bt placed under the regular contracts