The Denver star., 1914-10-24
SLAVE TRADE IN AMERICA.
Georgia Received Last Cargo Of Slaves,
Says Southern Paper.


Says Southern Paper.
The Mobile ,Ala., Register. in an edi-
torial reference to n new book called
"Historic Sketches of the South" by
Miss E. L. Roche of Mobile. states that
these Sketches are confined to q re-
view of the beginning of Nef ro slav-
cry in America. the early legislation
against the slave trade. and the con-
ditions Of the trade with America. as
an introduction. to an account OF the
voyage of the Chlotilde. the last slave
trading venture undertaken, and its
results" 1t is not quite correct to de-
scribe the voyage of the Chlotilde as
the last slave trading venture. There
was still later one, and Georgia. not
Alabama. received the very last cargo
of slaves from Africa.
The SLAYER Chlotilde landed 10 Ne
groes from Africa near Mobile in 1888.
In December of the same year the
SLAYER Wanderer, sailing under the flag
of the New York Yacht club, landed
75O slaves from the Kongo, near Bruins
wick. on the Georgia coast The Wan
derer landed COO more slaves from the
Congo on the Georgia coast in the fol-
lowing year-1S59. Stephen A. Doug
las declared in a public speech that he
believed 1900 Negro slaves were
smuggled into the United States in
1859 but so far as we know, the only
importation on record for that year
was the Wanderers second cargo Of
to faiT
Wanderer was actively engaged in the
outlawed business in the year after
the minor exploit Of the Chlotilde.
1t is related that the 80 Negroes
first landed by the Wanderer in De
cember, 1858. We're sent up the Satilla
| and Savannah rivers and scattered
over the state of Georgia, and that
these slaves We're sold at 5000 TO STOO
apiece, although they cost only few
beads and red handkerchiefs. Uhe
American Slave Trade, John r. Spears,
PIP. 193-2OS.l.
In n speech delivered at August, Ga,
July 9, 1859, Alexander Ii. Stephens.
without referring TO the successful
smuggling expeditions of the Wander
er and the Chlotilde, boldly suggested
African slave trade which had ceased
as a lawful enterprise in 1SOs by the
decree of the constitution of the Unit
ed States. He rejoiced that the slav-
cry institution was apparently more
strongly fortified than 1t ever. had
been. as a result of the agitationS fol-
lowing the compromise Of 1880. "Ques-
tions that We're doubtful and mooted
before these agitations have since been
settled he said. settled by all the
departments of the government" re
ferring TO Chief Justice Taney's deci-
sion in the Drcd Scott case and the
! triumph of the popular sovereignty"
| plan for the territories.
| But the advantage gained would be
! fruitless, he thought. without IAN in
/ crease of African slaves from abroad"
| ut takes people TO make states" he
said. land it requires people of the
African race to make slave states.
~, You may not expect to see many OF
the ter itories come into the Union as
| slave states unless we have an in
crease of African stock" The attitude
| of Stephens was the more remarkable
in view of the fact that the constitu
| ton of the Southern Confederacy,
adopted two years later. forbade the
reopening of the African slave trade,
and no proposition to do otherwise was
even offered in the preliminary dis
cussions.
What is chiefly interesting to us now
in connection with these last importa-
| tons of slaves half Il century ago is
the fact that the 1850 wild Negroes
from the Kongo that were sent up the
Satilla and savannah rivers and scat
tered over Georgia We're in most cases
very young men and women. perhaps
from sixteen to thirty years of age.
and it is probable that not few of
them are still living. while their chill
drcn and grandchildren are legion. The
fact that aboriginal savacery is in
many cases no more remote than that
| ought to be taken into account both
when we pass Judgment and when we
consider the varied aspects of our Ne
gro problem