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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Indian and African Slavery in St. Domingo. — The Insurrections. | |
| Discovery and settlement of the island by the Spaniards. — The natives reduced to slavery. — Cruelty of the Spaniards towards them. — Great mortality in consequence. — Their numbers replenished from the Bahamas. — The Dominicans become interested for them. — Las Casas appeals to Cardinal Ximenes, who sends commissioners. — They set the natives at liberty. — The colonists remonstrate against the measure, and the Indians again reduced to slavery. — Las Casas seeks a remedy. — The Emperor allows the introduction of Africans. — Guinea slave-trade established. — The buccaneers. — The French Colony. — Its condition in 1789. — Enormous slave-population. — The Mulattoes. — The French Revolution — its effect on the Colonists. — First Insurrection. — Terrible execution of the leaders. — Second Insurrection — massacre and conflagration — unparalleled horrors. — Burning of Port-au-Prince. — L'Ouverture appears, the spirit and ruler of the storm. — French expedition of 25,000 men sent to suppress the Insurrection. — Toussaint sent prisoner to France — dies in prison. — The slaves establish their freedom. — Independence of Hayti acknowledged by France | 252 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| African Slave Trade after its Nominal Abolition. | |
| State of the slave-trade since its nominal abolition. — Numbers imported and losses on the passage. — Increased horrors of the trade. — Scenes on board a captured slaver in Sierra Leone. — The Progresso. — Walsh's description of a slaver in 1829. — The trade in 1820. — The slave-trade in Cuba — officers of government interested in it. — Efforts of Spain insincere. — Slave barracoons near Governor's palace — conduct of the inmates. — The Bozals. — Bryan Edwards' description of natives of Gold Coast — their courage and endurance. — Number of slaves landed at Rio in 1838 — barracoons at Rio — government tax. — Slave-trade Insurance — Courts of Mixed Commission — their proceedings at Sierra Leone in 1838. — Joint stock slave-trade companies at Rio. — The Cruisers — intercepted letters. — Mortality of the trade. — Abuses of the American flag. — Consul Trist Aid British commissioners. — Correspondence of American Ministers to Brazil, Mr. Todd, Mr. Profit, Mr. Wise. — Extracts from Parliamentary papers. — Full list of Conventions and Treaties made by England for suppression of Slave-trade | 280 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Efforts to Suppress the Slave-Trade. — Operations of the Cruisers. | |
| Treaty between England and the United States, signed at Washington in 1842. — U. S. African Squadron under the treaty. — The Truxton captures an American slaver, the Spitfire, of New Orleans. — The Yorktown captures the Am. bark Pons, with 896 slaves on board. — Commander Bell's description of the sufferings of the slaves — they are landed at Monrovia and taken care of. — Squadron of 1846. — Capture of the Chancellor. — Slave establishment destroyed by the English and natives. — A slaver's history — embarkation and treatment of slaves. — How disposed of in Cuba. — Natural scenery of Africa. — Excursion to procure slaves — their horror at the prospect of slavery. — Passage from Mozambique — the small-pox on board. — More horrors of the Middle Passage. — The Estrella — revolt of negroes on board | 303 |
