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Show 22-1 .APPENDIX TO NOTES. sln.vcs, rcscurd by our cruisers, nnd landed on the shores of our colony, nrc rec(•ivcd by our missionnl'ics, nnd plnccd in their schools." 'file sympathies of·thc world were excited on this snQjcct, nnd Cl"cry civilized heart cried amen, in union with the impulsive fcclinrrs of this Jlibcrninn Report. 0 .Uut let us r emember to inquire a little into the facts, nnd examine whether these hopes were well or ill founded. We quote from voLxix. of the Cl!ristinn Observer, page 800: "Mr. J ohnson was nppomtcd to the care of Regent's Town, in the mont.h of June, 18 lG. On looking narrowly into the ~~ctunJ condition of the people intms tcd t.o his care, he felt g reat discour!\gcmcnt. Nntivcs of twenty-two different nations were there collected togcthe1-. A considerable number of them haciiJccn but recently liberated from the holds of shL\'e-\·essels. They wCI'C .IP'Ca.tly prf'judiced against ontl another, nud in:\ state of continual hostility, with no common mcdi urn of inOOrcOUI'SO but a lit.tlc Lrokrn J!:ng lish. When clothint!; was gi\•en to them, thcywou!J sell it. Ol' throw it away: it was diOicult to indure them to put it on; and it was not found practicable to introduce it among them, untilled to it by the example of l\Ir. J ohnson's ecrvnutgirl. None of them, on their first arrival, seemed to li\·e in fl.l!tatn of marriage; some of them Wf're ~'<Oon afterwards nn1nied by tho late !lfl·. llutscl!er; but all tho ble_ssings of the marringo st~'tto and of female, purtt.y appeared to be qu1tc unknown. * * * Superstition, Hl vn.rwus forms, ty ra nnized O\'CI' th eir minds; many devil's houses sprang t!P• and.ull placed their sccu.1·ity in wearing grcgrocs. Scarcely n.ny des1r0 of nnpro,·cmcnt was dlsccrna.Llc. * * * Some who wishe.d to c ultivn.to the soil, were deterred from doing so by th~ fenr of bcmg j)lundercd of the produce. Some would live in tho woodi!, n.pnrt from society; nnd others subsisted Ly thievi ng and plunder: they would s teal poultry and pigs from 1tny who posses~ed them nnd wo~dtl cat them raw ; nnd not a few of th('m, particula.rly of the }:boc na.t10n, the most Slwngc of them :dl, would prefer any kind of refuse meat to the rations which they received from Goycrnmcnt." Doubtless Mr. J ohnson and his successors ha\'e done all that good men could do, even under the protection of the British GO\·crnmcnt· bt~t have they, in tho least, affected tho slrtYc-trade of .Africa, other: WlSO than to di,·crt its direct ion, or hnve they diminished it to any observable extent? 'l'ru<>, its course has been changed, and its enormities thereby increased tenfold. Jnst(lad of its subjects being brou{!;ht under the r cgcncrn.ting influences of Clu·istianity, they are sacriliced at tho shrine of friend.'! :Lt homr, or sent nmong plig:mR or Mohammedans! Let the Christian philosopher think of these things. While we recollect the p1·oclamation of tho Emperor of Bourno, let us look at the sb\'C·tmdc as now c:trried on with the lhrbary States, the Arab triLes, and Eg-ypt and Asia, a.-, well as Tm·key in J•:uropc. 'Vc quote from" llurcklmrCs Tmvcls in Nubia," fl.ij reported in the Christian Observer, vol. xix. p. 45!): "The author had :L most fiwouruLie opportunity of collecting intelligence and making obscrm tions on this suLject, (sla.vcry,) as connectud witb the nol'thcnstcrn ]Jarts of Africa by traveiJjng witlt APPENDIX TO NOTES • 225 com nnies of shYrA :tntl 81:n·c·mcr('hnntA throu~l1 .the dcs<'rtA or Nul~ia. * f * The chid' mart in the Nubiuu mouut:tiOS, for ~ho ~.~y~llan nml the Arabian si:L\'c-tmdC', is Shondy. * ~ *. To tlw; <'mponu~u, s laves arc brought f1·om various parts of the mtel'l~r •. a.nd p:~rtii'Uhllly from the idol:tl!·ous * * * tribes in the YICIIHty o( Darfour, n('Q~~~0t'r~~;~ll~:L~~1~:1~;t~d tho number Rold anmmlly in the market of Shcndy at live thousand. "}'ar the larger part of these slaves arc under "the ago of fiftC'on." , . Sec p:~gc 400: " Few ~l a\·cs arc impo~tcd into l1,~ypt w1thout changing ma>~tcrs t;cvcml times. * * . ~ sln ve, lor exnl.np.lo, 11ur..:hnsod nt l•'crtit, is tt·ans fC1·rcd at lenst s1x t1mcs Lcfore he IH I'l ~es nt Cairo. 'J'hc~e rapid clmng<'s, as migl!t b.o ~xpccted, nrc. pro~uctm} of "'l'C:Lt hardship to the unfor tunate m(hnd nals, cspccudly Ill tho toil~omc journey across tho deserts. :Burck hu.r~ . saw o~ ~;ale at Shendy, m<wy childn.~n of lOur or five years oiJ, 1~1lltout tltetr }Jf!1·ents. * * * llurckhnrt hns entered into tho dchu.ls of c ~uelhes of n.nothcr kind, practised on the sl:wcs to raise tl~c1r pccunmry ".alue. The particulars nrc not Ruita!Jic for:~ work of mlscclln.n,cous pc• usal. * * * 'J'ho gr('at mart, however, for tho ~ upply or Jo,u:opean and Asin.tic Turkey with tho kind of sl1wcs req111rct.l as g uarJHUlS f~r tho h arem, l\lr. Hnrckhart informs llH, is not. at Shcnd~, l_lut ~~ n village ucnr Siout, in Upper Egypt, 1'nlwbilcd cluejly by Clll'tlfitans. (Abys· si'~L1\1~s,11:~~tc81~1?~~~~;)ching ~ln:res iR described ns fo~ow.~: '.'On the journ<'y, i!'"·Y arc tietl to a Jon~ polr, one end of winch IS hod t~ a camel's saddle, and the other, wh1_ch is _forked, is passed on each S1do of the sla\·c's neck, n.nd tie<l bcl~md w~t!• a stron,;; co_rd, .son.~ to sr~vent him drawing out his head: m addtt.wn to th.1s, h1s r1ght hn.n IS nlso fastened to the pole, :~t a short d1stancc fl'om ti.JO head, thus Ie::l.\'ing only Ids legs and lc f'~ urm at liberty .. In tlu~ manuo: he marches the whole Jay behind the cn.mel: at n1ght h~ HI t~kc n from the polo nnd JHit in irons. " rhilo on the rou~o to SOLmk1m, I sa~v sc\·eral slaves carried along in this way. 'J'hc1r 0\~' lloCrs were .af~:ud of their escaping, or of becoming thcmsclvcs. t h ~ ol,Jccts of .thc1r \CJ~• roancc· and in thi8 man net· they would contmuc to be confmcU nnhl ;old to' a master, who, intending to keep them, would endeavour to attach them to liis person. ln gC'nerr~;l, thc.traders sccm.t;;:rcatly to dread tho effect&. of sudden resentment 111 thctr ~l:w~s ;, and 1,~ u.growuup Loy is to be whipped, his master first puts. hun Ill 1rons. Page 333 : " l:~cmal ca with children on thmr bncks follow the carava ns on foot; nnd if a camC'l break~ down, the mm er p;~ ncra.ll,v londs his slaves with the pa<·kages; _ltnd if l\ hoy in the cventng: cno only obtain n. little butte r· with hi8 dhou1Tet IJre:tJ, ~nd RO!no grease every two o1· three days to f.imcur his hotly aud hrur, hc.1s cop tented, and llC\'Cr compi:Lins of fati<"u C. Another C:tll8C winch tnduc.es. tho merchants to trc:tt tho :laves well (?) i~ thc:ir, anxiety to. diSSip~te tho horror which tho ncg i'OCS n.ll cntcrbun of B_!;ypt an(! the wluto people. Jt is a common opin_ion in the bl_ack slnvl.l countrws that tho Oulcdor Rif or cbilclren of ]{if, ns tbo E gyptians arc there called, devour the sitwcs, who o.rc transported thither for that purpposc: or 29 |