Identifier: historyofslavery5491blak (find matches)
Title: The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome ; the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Blake, William O
Subjects: Slavery Slave trade Slavery Antislavery movements Antislavery movements
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : H. Miller
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Slaves, says Mr. Town, are brought from the country very distant from the
coast. The king of Barra informed Mr. Town, that on the arrival of a ship,
he has gone three hundred miles up the country with his guards, and driven
down captives to the sea-side. From Marraba, king of the Mandingoes, he
has heard that they had marched slaves out of the country some hundred miles ;
that they had gone wood-ranging, to pick up every one they met with, whom
they stripped naked, and, if men, bound; but if women, brought down loose ;
this he had from themselves, and also, that they often went to war with the
Bullam nation, on purpose to get slaves. They boasted that they should soon
have a fine parcel for the shallops, and the success often answered. Mr. Town
has seen the prisoners (the men bound, the women and children loose) driven
for sale to the water-side. He has also known the natives to go in gangs, ma-
rauding and catching all they could. In the Galenas river he knew four blacks
seize a man who had been to the sea-side to sell one or more slaves. This man
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AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE

PROCURING SLAVES. 113

was returning home with the goods received in exchange for these, and they
plundered him, stripped him naked, and brought him to the trading shallop,
which Mr. Town commanded, and sold him there.
He believes the natives also sometimes become slaves, in consequence of
crimes, as well as, that it is no uncommon thing on the coast, to impute crimes
falsely for the sake of selling the persons so accused. Several respectable per-
sons at Bance Island, and to windward of it, all told Mr. Town that it was
common to bring on palavers * to make slaves, and he believes it from the in-
formation of the slaves afterwards, when brought down the country and put on
board the ships.
Off Piccaninni Sestos, farther down on the Windward Coast, Mr. Dove ob-
served an instance of a girl being kidnapped and brought on board by one Ben
Johnson, a black trader, who had scarcely left the ship in his canoe, with th
eprice of her, when another canoe with two black men came in a hurry to these

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