The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-07-29

Great Britain. 1t happened occasionally
the sale of a Negro prince into slav-
cry aroused a protest from enlight-
ened men and women. Many such were
among the slaves. 1t was in 1768-72
a great souled Englishman, Granville
Sharp succeeded by pushing q test
case through the English courts In
getting a judicial decision that slew
cry could no long exist in Great
Britain, and therefore. when a slave
landed on British soil he was free and
might not be taken back into bond
age. In 1887 Wilberorce. Clarkson
and other philanthropic minded men
formed themselves into an organiza-
ton for the abolition of slavery-and
due to their untiring efforts Dill
was passed in England 1907, though
not all they desired yet is subjected
the slave traffic under the British
flag to serious disadvantages. 1911
this measure was greatly strengthen
ed by another bill declaring the slave
trade a felony punishable by penal
servitude. The passing of this act
had the effect of working a greater
hardship on the slaves than before.
Just as II is In the case of the 18TH
Amendment in our day. 1t was vio-
lated resulting in the smuggling Of
people had suffered much in the pro-
cess of transportation from the be-
ginning. but now that a penalty at
tachei to this wicked business, large
number of human beings were carried
on a single voyage concealed in the
huh of the ship. A writer of that
period has this to say about the con-
ditions which followed the enactment
of the law against the Slave Trade
I'm these later days, when Il was
necessary to evade tiresoI9t regula-
tions or carry on the trado in the
o. r.. g ai,aot ,1robihftion 49, .,,Fea.
ing OF the slaves was so appalling
as to almost transcend belief. 1t would
seem as though the inhuman traffic
had created in Arab. Negro and the
white man the deliberate love for
cruelty, amounting almost to the neg
ii would obviously have been more to
the interest of the slave raider and
the slave trader and to transporter
that the slaves should be landed at
their ultimate destination in good
ondition--certainly with the least
possible loss of life. Yet az the pres
emit writer can testify from what he
has himself seen In the eighties and
nineties of the last century, slave
gang on its march to the coast was
loaded with unnecessary heavy colors
or slave sticks with chains of iron
that chafed and cut into the flesh.
and caused virulent ulcers. The slaves
were half starved, over-driven, insult
provided with drinking water.
and recklessly exposed to death from
sunstroke. If they threw themselves
down for a brief rest or collapsed
from exhaustion they were shot.
speared or had their throats cuts with
fiendish brutality. / have seen at
raveita (now civilized settlement
in British East Africa) boys and
youths left In the bush to die by de-
grees from modification and protru-
dion of the fntestinea Owino IN fha
lnskillful way In which they had
been castrated by the Arabs, who had
attempted to make ennuchs of them
FOR sale to the Turl1iah and Arab
larems. Children whom their mothers
,ould not carry, end WAC could not
Keep up with the caravan, had their
brains dashed out Many slaves q
lgain write from personal knowledge)
committed suicide because they could
lot bear TO be separated from their