Excerpt from A Visit to the United States To supply the slave-markets of the Western world, one hundred and twenty thousand native Africans are, on the most moderate calculation, annually required whilst the slave-markets of the East require fifty thousand more. In procuring these victims of a guilty traffic, to be devoted to the rigours of perpetual slavery, it is computed that two hundred and eighty thousand perish in addition, and under circumstances the most revolting and afflicting. But this is not all. In the ...
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Excerpt from A Visit to the United States To supply the slave-markets of the Western world, one hundred and twenty thousand native Africans are, on the most moderate calculation, annually required whilst the slave-markets of the East require fifty thousand more. In procuring these victims of a guilty traffic, to be devoted to the rigours of perpetual slavery, it is computed that two hundred and eighty thousand perish in addition, and under circumstances the most revolting and afflicting. But this is not all. In the Southern section of the United States, and in British India, a vast internal slave trade is carried on, second only in horror and extent to that which has so long desolated and degraded Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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