The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-07-22

cy of Bombay, these Negroes became
so powerful that they carved out
states OF their own, sone OF which
still exist and are ruled by Negro
to the slave trade when Europeans
discovered America. The Spanish,
Portuguese and English became set
tiers of the New World and soon OBJ
too fierce and at the same time too
weak to do the work on the plan-
tations and in the mines and as
early as 1903 Negro slaves were
working in the mines Of Hispaniola,
brought there by the Spanish. Soon
Mexico, Panama, and Peru. In 1917
slave trade between Africa and the
New World was fully established.
Chas. v. of Spain, having granted to
a Flemish merchant the exclusive
right Of importing to America 1000
Slaves year. The records show that
three hundred Negro porters and
soldiers accompanied Cortez on his
march to Mexico in 1919: Negroes
carried the loads of Balboa when he
a company Of black men were with
Hernandez when he entered Peru
in 1880 Negro workmen assisted
the Spaniards In the founding Of
st Augustine, Florida in 1865, and
Negroes rising high in Spanish SER
vice in the first half Of the 10th
century explored fo Spain the lands
of New Mexico an6 ARIZONA. l men,
lion these things to the end that our
minds may grasp the real meaning
The English began the slave trade
as private citizens under Sir John
Hawkins In 1562-.nt the British
nation began to realizel In the 18th
century how profitable the Negro
slave would be on the tobacco plan-
fations of Virginia and it went into
se business as they only can do
taings, and from 1880 TO 1868 $780,
DJ0 Negroes were imported into the
Brittsh-American Colonies The 18th
century found the slave traffic aver
aging 100000 annually. ne suffer-
ing and the wroclxless loss OF life
this wholesale traffic in duman be-
ings produced, II 1t were possible to
write 1t would be one OF the sadest
chapters in human Eisttry-but no
penmsn however gifted could der
scribe IL even in a most superficial
way--thcse heart throbs and bitter
agonies of my people dull the most
acute conception q fancy and paral-
nation. II was my rul ,se to go
sorae what into the detail Of these
horrors. but 1t would make this LETT
ter too long, but shall continue
this in my. next letter. / shall speak
In some detail of the black mans
life and death in transit and how
they were torn away from their
home and bound in chains and de-
ported to all parts of the world My
interest was kindled In this subject
when | saw actual slavery existing
in Africa.
The effort OF tie several Churches
doing missionary york in the Re-
public OF Liberia CO lstitutes the most
outstanding factor in its moral and
educational adyancen ent and its POI
tentialities are beyond comprehen-
sion. ann glad to make this
statement that / may correct an i'm
preston th3t seems to have been
enormously made ~ worker In
one of our missionary societies, to
the effect that money contributed for
mission work was wasted on the
Africans. Moth ng could be more
wide of tie srrth. when the money
contributed for that purpose reaches
its destination and Is wisely ap-
piled It gains hundred fold. II
Liberia offers the only hope for the
Co'ofed mans c. apartment in the
construction OF modern govern
ment-it at the same time offers c;o-
portunjty Of making g Christian.
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