item: #1 of 20
          id: 10611
      author: Clarkson, Thomas
       title: An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions
        date: None
       words: 52996
      flesch: 65
     summary: Thus the barrier between the two natures was thrown down, and _slavery_ was no more heard of, in the _west_. To decide the first, we may previously observe, that the African servitude comprehends _banishment_, a _deprivation_ of _liberty_, and many _corporal_ sufferings.
    keywords: account; african; argument; case; children; circumstance; colonies; colour; commerce; country; fact; footnote; human; labour; laws; liberty; life; manner; men; nations; nature; occasion; people; person; power; present; publick; punishment; reason; receivers; respect; right; servitude; situation; slavery; slaves; species; state; subject; time; treatment; war; work
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        item: #2 of 20
          id: 10633
      author: Clarkson, Thomas
       title: The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)
        date: None
       words: 239330
      flesch: 64
     summary: The Negroes' and Indians' Advocate_, he gives advice to those masters in foreign plantations, who have negroes and other slaves. At this, time the nature of the trade beginning to be better known, we find them more animated upon it, as the following extract will show:-- We fervently warn all in profession with us, that they carefully avoid being any way concerned in reaping the unrighteous profits, arising from the iniquitous practice of dealing in negro or other slaves; whereby, in the original purchase, one man selleth another, as he doth the beasts that perish, without any better pretension to a property in him than that of superior force; in direct violation of the Gospel rule, which teacheth all to do as they would be done by, and to do good to all; being the reverse of that covetous disposition, which furnisheth encouragement to those poor ignorant people to perpetuate their savage wars, in order to supply the demands of this most unnatural traffic, by which great numbers of mankind, free by nature, are subject to inextricable bondage, and which hath often been observed to fill their possessors with haughtiness, tyranny, luxury, and barbarity, corrupting the minds and debasing the morals of their children, to the unspeakable prejudice of religion and virtue, and the exclusion of that holy spirit of universal love, meekness, and charity, which is the unchangeable nature and the glory of true Christianity.
    keywords: abolition; account; africa; africans; bill; board; british; captain; cause; chapter; character; circumstances; committee; commons; consequence; consideration; council; country; course; day; duty; england; evidence; evil; favour; friends; general; good; history; honourable; house; humanity; indies; interest; islands; john; justice; knowledge; left; length; letter; life; liverpool; london; long; lord; man; manner; means; measure; members; men; mind; motion; nature; negroes; new; number; object; occasion; opinion; parliament; people; persons; place; planters; present; principles; public; purpose; question; relative; respect; right; seamen; second; ship; sir; situation; slave trade; slavery; slaves; society; state; subject; support; system; thought; time; traffic; vessels; view; way; west; wilberforce; william; work; world; year
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        item: #3 of 20
          id: 11489
      author: Benezet, Anthony
       title: Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects
        date: None
       words: 43860
      flesch: 65
     summary: That for _every slave killed_, in pursuance of this act, or _put to death by law_, the master or owner of such slave _shall be paid by the public_. Negroe_ slaves (in the colonies) allowed to cohabit and separate at pleasure, 36.
    keywords: account; act; case; coast; colonies; country; europeans; footnote; god; good; great; guinea; inhabitants; justice; king; labour; laws; liberty; man; men; nations; natives; negroes; number; order; page; parts; people; person; right; slavery; slaves; time; trade; vol; year
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        item: #4 of 20
          id: 12428
      author: Clarkson, Thomas
       title: The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I
        date: None
       words: 110504
      flesch: 62
     summary: In his Christian Directory, published about the same time as the Negros and Indians Advocate, he gives advice to those masters in foreign plantations, who have Negros and other slaves. At this time the nature of the trade beginning to be better known we find them more animated upon it, as the following extract will show:-- We fervently warn all in profession with us, that they carefully avoid being any way concerned in reaping the unrighteous profits arising from the iniquitous practice of dealing in Negro or other slaves; whereby, in the original purchase, one man selleth another, as he doth the beasts that perish, without any better pretension to a property in him, than that of superior force; in direct violation of the Gospel rule, which teacheth all to do as they would be done by, and to do good to all; being the reverse of that covetous disposition, which furnisheth encouragement to those poor ignorant people to perpetuate their savage wars, in order to supply the demands of this most unnatural traffic, by which great numbers of mankind, free by nature, are subject to inextricable bondage; and which hath often been observed to fill their possessors with haughtiness, tyranny, luxury, and barbarity, corrupting the minds and debasing the morals of their children, to the unspeakable prejudice of religion and virtue, and the exclusion of that holy spirit of universal love, meekness, and charity, which is the unchangeable nature and the glory of true Christianity.
    keywords: abolition; account; africa; africans; board; bristol; captain; cause; commitee; consequence; country; course; day; evidence; friends; good; house; john; knowledge; letter; liverpool; lord; manner; means; members; men; mind; nature; new; object; parliament; people; persons; place; present; public; purpose; quakers; question; right; seamen; second; ship; slave; slavery; society; state; subject; thought; time; trade; vessels; way; west; william; work; year
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        item: #5 of 20
          id: 12507
      author: Clarkson, Thomas
       title: The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume II
        date: None
       words: 114519
      flesch: 65
     summary: It was enacted, That, if any Negro or other slave should withdraw himself from his master for the term of six months; or any slave, who was absent, should not return within that time, every such person should suffer death. Here an agent was sent to establish a settlement in the country, and to send to the ships such slaves as he might obtain.
    keywords: abolition; account; africa; africans; argument; assembly; bill; british; captain; cause; circumstances; committee; commons; country; day; evidence; general; good; house; humanity; indies; interest; islands; justice; long; lord; man; manner; measure; members; men; motion; negros; number; parliament; people; persons; place; planters; present; question; report; resolution; respect; ship; sir; slave; slavery; state; subject; thought; time; trade; traffic; west; wilberforce; william; witnesses; year
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        item: #6 of 20
          id: 12539
      author: Corry, Joseph
       title: Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade
        date: None
       words: 44830
      flesch: 44
     summary: They may properly be called the nurses and warriors of the kingdom; they urge their fellow subjects in the _first_ state to labour, they inspect the construction of the interior apartments, repel all attacks from enemies, and devour them with fury; and may be considered as the standing army of the state. an act of oblivion is passed relative to her former conduct; but where the crime of witchcraft is included, slavery is uniformly the consequence: those accused as partners of her guilt are obliged to undergo the ordeal by _red water_, redeem themselves by slaves, or go into slavery themselves.
    keywords: africa; attention; bance; barbarism; cape; chapter; character; chiefs; civilization; coast; colony; commerce; commercial; condition; consequence; countries; country; customs; day; form; general; goree; influence; inhabitants; interior; island; leone; man; men; nations; natives; nature; number; objects; observations; people; present; river; sierra; slave; slavery; species; state; subject; system; time; town; trade; tree; view; water; windward; | |
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        item: #7 of 20
          id: 17700
      author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
       title: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870
        date: None
       words: 125521
      flesch: 77
     summary: Determined to keep open a market where _men_ should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. Congress (Senate): Proposed Resolution.~ Mr. Wilson submitted the following resolution; which was considered, by unanimous consent, and agreed to:-- _Resolved_, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the laws of the United States in relation to the suppression of the African slave trade as to provide a penalty of imprisonment for life for a participation in such trade, instead of the penalty of forfeiture of life, as now provided; and also an amendment of such laws as will include in the punishment for said offense all persons who fit out or are in any way connected with or interested in fitting out expeditions or vessels for the purpose of engaging in such slave trade.
    keywords: abolition; act; acts; african; american; annals; bill; britain; british; carolina; coast; colonial; colonies; committee; cong; congress; convention; country; dec; doc; duty; england; etc; exec; feb; foreign; general; georgia; government; history; house; house doc; ibid; iii; importation; island; journal; laws; london; march; massachusetts; negroes; new; papers; pennsylvania; persons; president; province; report; right; secretary; senate; sess; shall; slave states; slave trade; slavery; slaves; south; southern; states; statutes; suppression; time; traffic; treaty; united states; vessels; virginia; west; years; york
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        item: #8 of 20
          id: 18683
      author: Brown, William Perry
       title: Ralph Granger's Fortunes
        date: None
       words: 50130
      flesch: 87
     summary: I'm Ralph Granger, from over about Hiawassee Gap. Son of old Bras? Ralph assented, when the shock headed man called to his wife, who was sifting meal for the supper: Ralph Continues his Journey IV.
    keywords: bludson; boat; boy; cabin; captain; day; deck; door; duff; eyes; gary; granger; half; hand; head; hold; hour; know; lad; left; life; look; man; mate; men; quigg; ralph; right; sail; sailor; saw; schooner; sea; shard; ship; thought; time; wanderer; want; water; way; wind
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        item: #9 of 20
          id: 21060
      author: Collingwood, Harry
       title: The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron
        date: None
       words: 103340
      flesch: 66
     summary: For instance, he once or twice used the word the, uttering it as plainly as I could; and at other times I noticed that he called it ze or dee. But we will take care to have the boats in the creek in good time.
    keywords: austin; black; board; boat; brig; captain; course; craft; creek; crew; daphne; day; deck; distance; don; eyes; fact; feet; fellow; good; half; hand; hawkesley; head; hour; length; lieutenant; look; man; manuel; miles; minutes; moment; mr smellie; night; old; point; poor; river; round; sail; schooner; second; set; ship; sir; skipper; smellie; thought; time; tree; vernon; water; way; work
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        item: #10 of 20
          id: 21064
      author: Collingwood, Harry
       title: A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron
        date: None
       words: 105920
      flesch: 67
     summary: And as the man duly passed the word, I turned to Keene and said: Now, then, young man, hurry up and get your kit ready as fast as you please. What is your name, young man? was the next question, for as yet he had only read the dispatch, leaving the covering letter and other documents for perusal at his leisure.
    keywords: boat; breeze; brig; cabin; canvas; captain; carter; close; course; craft; crew; day; deck; fact; fellow; general; good; grenvile; half; hand; head; hour; left; length; little; longboat; look; lotta; man; men; minutes; moment; night; order; place; port; quarter; ricardo; round; sail; schooner; sea; ship; simpson; sir; skipper; time; watch; water; way; wind; work
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        item: #11 of 20
          id: 21070
      author: Collingwood, Harry
       title: A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story
        date: None
       words: 102915
      flesch: 59
     summary: For, from your account of him, I judge the skipper of the _Virginia_ to be an exceptionally vindictive individual, with a very strong animus against us `Britishers,' as he calls us, and such men are apt to be dangerous when provoked, as he will pretty certainly be when he discovers that you are following and watching him. The next day, accordingly, the party crossed to the mainland to complete the preparation of the ambuscade, returning, in good time for dinner, with the report that all was now done, and that the spot was ready for occupation at a moment's notice.
    keywords: ama; boat; cabin; captain; course; craft; crew; cut; day; deck; distance; eyes; fact; feet; fire; fortescue; good; half; hand; head; hour; king; left; length; little; look; man; mate; matter; miles; minutes; moment; monsieur; morning; night; order; party; perry; place; purchase; rest; river; round; sea; set; ship; sir; skipper; slave; spot; time; watch; water; way; wind; work
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        item: #12 of 20
          id: 21472
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Ned Garth; Or, Made Prisoner in Africa: A Tale of the Slave Trade
        date: None
       words: 63848
      flesch: 79
     summary: Miss Sally ran on in the same strain for some time, but all she said failed to impart much confidence to poor Ned; still his uncle might succeed in getting him on board a merchant vessel, and like a prudent lad, he was ready for whatever might turn up. Miss Sally looked greatly relieved when she heard that it was not likely her brother would go to sea, anxious as she was that poor Ned should obtain the object of his wishes.
    keywords: arabs; board; boat; charley; coast; commander; days; dhow; good; hanson; hope; lieutenant; look; man; mary; men; ned; party; people; poor; rhymer; sally; sayd; sea; ship; slaves; thought; time; tom; water; way
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        item: #13 of 20
          id: 21490
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa
        date: None
       words: 102848
      flesch: 78
     summary: As we saw several other men at the entrance of the cabin with muskets in their hands, we knew that resistance was useless. Taking Aboh with us, when we knew the king was at home, we proceeded together to his palace.
    keywords: aboh; black; board; canoe; captain; charley; course; crew; day; deck; distance; escape; find; fire; friends; good; hand; harry; head; house; king; look; man; mate; men; observed; people; rest; roderick; round; set; ship; shore; sight; thought; time; tom; tubbs; village; water; way
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        item: #14 of 20
          id: 21714
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Red Eric
        date: None
       words: 99582
      flesch: 78
     summary: The present was such an occasion to little Ailie Dunning. Meanwhile the captain stepped up to the Portuguese sailors and told them to mind their own business, and let _honest_ men alone; adding, that if they did not take his advice, he would first give them a licking and then pitch them all into the river.
    keywords: ailie; boat; briant; captain; captain dunning; child; course; crew; day; dear; deep; doctor; dunning; eric; eyes; face; fact; glynn; good; gurney; hand; head; jacko; jane; jim; know; left; life; look; man; martha; means; men; mind; minutes; moment; monkey; order; phil; place; point; red; right; rokens; round; sea; ship; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; whale; white; wos; wot
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        item: #15 of 20
          id: 21748
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Black Ivory
        date: None
       words: 93672
      flesch: 73
     summary: A slave-stick was put on his neck, and, along with a number of Manganja men, women, and children, he was driven down to the coast, and sold, with a number of other men and women, among whom was his own mother, to a Portuguese merchant on the coast, near the East Luavo mouth of the Zambesi. Then he goes on to tell me more about the Governor of this here town, an' says that, though a kind-hearted man in the main, and very good to his domestic slaves, he encourages the export trade, because it brings him in a splendid revenue, which he has much need of, poor man, for like most, if not all, of the Governors on the coast, he do receive nothin' like a respectible salary from the Portuguese Government at home, and has to make it up by slave-tradin'.
    keywords: africa; antonio; arab; azinte; black; captain; chief; children; chimbolo; coast; course; day; dhow; disco; eyes; fire; good; governor; half; hand; harold; head; jumbo; kambira; land; left; lieutenant; life; lindsay; look; man; maraquita; marizano; men; mind; moment; party; people; point; poor; portuguese; right; round; set; sir; slave; slavery; small; tell; thought; time; trade; village; water; way; white; women; wot; yoosoof; zanzibar
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        item: #16 of 20
          id: 23034
      author: Canot, Theodore
       title: Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
        date: None
       words: 160710
      flesch: 68
     summary: But the impudent _parvenu_ sneered at my advice; he knew no such person as Ali-Ninpha, and cared not a snap of his finger for a Fullah chief, or a beggarly white man! England, to-day, with all her philanthropy, sends, under the cross of St. George, to convenient magazines of _lawful commerce_ on the coast, her Birmingham muskets, Manchester cottons, and Liverpool lead, all of which are righteously swapped at Sierra Leone, Acra, and on the Gold coast, for Spanish or Brazilian bills on London.
    keywords: africa; ahmah; ali; american; arms; arrival; beach; bellah; blood; board; boat; body; book; boy; british; cabin; canoe; cape; captain; caravan; cargo; cents; chapter; character; charge; chief; cloth; coast; country; course; craft; crew; cuba; day; days; death; deck; don; end; english; escape; eyes; face; factory; feet; forest; french; friends; fullah; gallinas; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; interior; king; land; left; lieutenant; life; man; master; mate; men; merchandise; miles; mind; moment; mongo; morning; mount; native; nature; negro; negroes; new; night; ninpha; officers; order; ormond; party; people; poor; prince; property; rafael; return; river; save; saw; scene; schooner; sea; sestros; set; ship; short; slaves; spanish; story; thing; thought; time; town; trade; vessel; visit; voyage; war; water; way; white; women; work; years
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        item: #17 of 20
          id: 43136
      author: Meade, L. T.
       title: Mou-Setsé: A Negro Hero; The Orphans' Pilgimage: A Story of Trust in God
        date: None
       words: 14082
      flesch: 85
     summary: Mou-Setse saw that little children would have no chance whatever in such a crowd. they little guessed that never again would they kiss each other, or play together, or be happy with that innocent happiness that the good and loving God gives to little children.
    keywords: brothers; children; father; god; man; mother; mou; nanny; setse; story; time; toni; town
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        item: #18 of 20
          id: 4675
      author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
       title: The Sea-Witch; Or, The African Quadroon: A Story of the Slave Coast
        date: None
       words: 59032
      flesch: 73
     summary: The reader would here recognize, in the new comer, Captain Robert Bramble, whom we saw paying suit to Miss Huntington, not long previous, on the shady verandah of her mother's house, in the environs of Calcutta. Charles Bramble still hesitated as to revealing his relationship to Captain Robert Bramble, from real feelings of delicacy, even to Mrs. Huntington, whom he felt he could trust, partly because he had reason to know that the mother had favored the suit of his brother whom Helen had rejected in India, and partly because at present of his own equivocal situation.
    keywords: board; boat; bramble; brother; captain; captain bramble; captain ratlin; charles; commander; course; daughter; day; don; english; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; hand; heart; helen; huntington; land; leonard; man; mate; maud; miss; moment; mother; officer; ratlin; robert; sea; ship; sir; thought; time; vessel; way; witch; years
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        item: #19 of 20
          id: 61977
      author: Collins, Winfield H. (Winfield Hazlitt)
       title: The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States
        date: None
       words: 30435
      flesch: 76
     summary: Several of these as given took place in slave States.] It was provided that any one who wished to pass through the State with slaves might do so; but near the place where he was to enter the State he should take the following oath before a magistrate or quorum: I, A.B., do swear that the slaves which I am carrying through this State are bona fide my property, and that I will not sell, hire or dispose of said slaves, or either of them, to any resident or citizen, or body corporate or public, or any other person or persons whomsoever, within the State of South Carolina, but will travel directly to the place where I intend to move.
    keywords: america; carolina; cotton; domestic; footnote; ibid; importation; increase; laws; louisiana; mississippi; negroes; new; north; sale; slave states; slave trade; slavery; slaves; south; states; time; trade; united; united states; virginia; vol; years
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        item: #20 of 20
          id: 8000
      author: Carey, Henry Charles
       title: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
        date: None
       words: 174124
      flesch: 58
     summary: From year to year the millers would become greater men, and the farmers and labourers smaller men, and step by step all would find themselves becoming slaves to the caprices of the owners of a little machinery, the whole cost of which would scarcely exceed _the daily loss_ resulting from the existence of the system. The difficulty, however, is that wages are very low, and thus there is but little inducement for the immigration of men from the interior, or from this country.[170] Much progress has thus been made, yet it is small compared with what, might be made could the republic offer greater inducements to settlers from the interior, or from this country; that is, could it raise the value of man, ridding itself of _cheap labour_.
    keywords: aid; british; capital; case; cent; children; cloth; commodities; competition; condition; cotton; countries; country; course; cultivation; day; demand; earth; employment; england; english; exchange; export; extent; fact; following; food; foreign; freedom; government; half; home; improvement; increase; india; ireland; iron; labour; labourer; land; life; machinery; man; manufacture; market; men; millions; nations; new; number; obtain; pay; people; place; poor; population; power; present; price; produce; production; products; purchase; quantity; slave; slavery; small; soil; state; sugar; supply; system; tendency; things; time; towns; trade; value; wages; wealth; women; work; world; years
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