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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] I posted this over and over but I'm going to make a new thread. The "Arab" slave trade was always minor. Places people assume were affected by the "Arab" slave trade were actually for the sake of sending the people on route to the coast to be purchased by Europeans [QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: It was not a west African slave trade it was an African slave trade William Pitt, The Younger. 1759-1806. 352. From His Speech On The Abolition Op The Slave-trade . April 2, 1792. http://books.google.com/books?id=_SoQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA452&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE] Do you think nothing of the ruin and the miseries in which so many other individuals, still remaining in Africa, are involved, in consequence of carrying off so many myriads of people? Do you think nothing of their families which are left be- bind I of the connections which are broken ? of the friendships, attachments, and relationships that are burst asunder! Do you think nothing of the miseries in consequence, that are felt from generation to generation? of the privation of that happiness which might be communicated to them by the introduction of civilization, and of mental and moral improvement? A happiness which you withhold them so long as you permit the slave-trade to continue. What do you know of the internal state of Africa? You have carried on a trade to that quarter of the globe from this civilized and enlightened country. but such a trade, that, instead of diffusing either knowledge or wealth, it has been the check to every laudable pursuit. Instead of any fail interchange of commodities; instead of conveying to them, from this highly favored land, any means of improvement; [b]you carry with you that noxious plant by which everything is withered and blasted; under whose shade nothing that is useful or profitable to Africa will eves flourish or take root. Long as that continent has been known to navigators, the extreme line and boundaries of its coasts is all with which Europe is yet become acquainted; while other countries in the same parallel of latitude, through a happier system of intercourse, have reaped the blessings of a mutually beneficial commerce. But as to the whole interior of that continent you are, by your own principles of commerce, as yet entirely shut out: Africa is known to you only in its skirts. Yet here you are able to infuse a poison that spreads its contagious effects from one end of it to the other, which penetrates to its very center, corrupting every part to which it reaches. You there subvert the whole order of nature; you aggravate every natural barbarity, and furnish to every man living on that continent motives for committing, under the name and pretext of commerce, acts of perpetual violence and perfidy [/QUOTE] http://books.google.com/books?id=OjI3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245#v=one page&q=&f=false [QUOTE] [b]I verily believe, that the far greater part of the wars, in Africa, would cease, if the Europeans would cease to tempt them, by offering goods for slaves.[/b] And though they do not bring legions into the field, their wars are bloody. I believe, the captives reserved for sale are fewer than the slain. I have not sufficient data to warrant calculation but, I suppose, not less than one hundred thousand slaves are exported, annually, [b]from all parts of Africa,[/b] and that more than one-half of these are exported in English bottoms. If but an equal number are killed in war, and if many of these wars are kindled by the incentive of selling their prisoners ; what an annual accumulation of blood must there be, crying against the nations of Europe concerned in this trade, and particularly against our own![/QUOTE][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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