The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-07-29
CANLIBERIA EVER BECOME THE MECCA FOR The OPP
PRESSED BLACK MAN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD?

children and from their homes. They
were branded and flogged and 1t is
needless to say. received not the
slightest medical treatment for In
Juries resulting from such usage
This statement comes from q man
who has spent a very large part of
his life investigating conditions in
Africa, and If the pictures that ]
have presented seem over-drawn
am sure this will more than verify
what l have said. The above des-
cription gives the readers some idea
of the overland journey Of the slaves
to the port of transportation-whe
they were delivered by the slave hum
ters TO the slave dealers on the coast,
then the horrors of the voyage began.
these ships belonged to civilized ma
tions like England. Spain, Portugal, Hol-
land and America, and not the Arabs
and Indians who carried slaves across
from East Africa to Arabia and India.
In their case vessels were not over
crowded and the slaves were allowed
degree of liberty and fresh air. But
in the slave trade with America after
the passage of the prohibition meas
ure by the British Parliament which
penalized the traffic 1t became the
aim of the masters to pack as many
slaves as possible on ships-figuring
that the SIX OF making one voyage
was Just hall Of that of making two.
Very often they were sent on board
stark naked, they were packed like
sardines in the hold of the ship. some
times on the middle deck and in times
of bad weather and for greater Sc
clusion were often kept under the
hatchcs--this was done with positively
no regard for sanitation--the stencil
produced was appalling-many dying
from asphyxiation. On some vessels
where the captains were humane the
slaves were occasionally allowed to
go on deck and wartered with
hose. When slave ship was chased
by a British cruiser no scruples wsre
overheard to drown. The black man
who numbers more than twelve mil
lions in this country has descended
from an ancestry whose sufferings
only a recording angel can ever des-
cribe. The facts with the two hun
bred and fifty years of bondage in
distinguishes him as the mar
tyr nation of the earth. To little Dem
mark belongs the credit of being the
first European nation to forbid the
traffic In human being to her subjects
In 1892. The United States two years
later Forbade her SUBJECTS to partici-
pate in the expectation OF Negroes to
other parts of the world. An act was
passed In 1904. which was first pro-
in 1894 that prohibited the
of any more slaves into
the United States. Due to the great
loss to English commerce, especially
to Bristol and Liverpool merchants
who were vitality interested In the
slave trade, a long and bitter fight
look place in the British Parliament
which resulted in the passing of an
lct in 1911 forever abolishing the
slave traffic so far as English SUBJ
Iects were concerned. France had
pln ged with The matter for
some years--but during the hundred
lays of NapOIeon's rule In 1915 a de-
cree was issued ending the siR ve
.rade for that nation for good and ali
lime. Portugal subjected the slave
.rade 60 soIoe restrictions. but did rot
abolish II until 1890. In 1895
he English paid Portugal S00.0O0
pounds TO get the export OF slaves
rom her dominions prohlbitei. Great
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