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| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Operations of the Cruisers under the Ashburton Treaty. | |
| The American Squadrons from 1847 to 1851. — More captures. — U. S. Brig Perry cruises off the southern coast. — Capture of a slaver with 800 slaves, by an English cruiser. — Abuses of the American flag. — The Lucy Ann captured. — Case of the Navarre. — Capture by the Perry of the Martha of New York — her condemnation. — Case of the Chatsworth — of the Louisa Beaton. — The Chatsworth seized and sent to Baltimore — is condemned as a slaver. State of the slave-trade on the southern coast. — Importance of the squadron. — The Brazilian slave-trade diminishes | 344 |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| Historical Sketch of Sierra Leone and Liberia. | |
| Colony of Sierra Leone founded by the English, 1787. — Free negroes colonized. — Present extent and condition of the colony. — Establishment of English factories on the slave coast. — Treaties with the African chiefs. — Scheme of African Colonization agitated in 1783 — by Jefferson and others. — Movements in Va., in 1800 and 1805. — Formation of the American Colonization Society in 1816. — Its object "to colonize the free people of color." — Cape Mesurado purchased and colonized in 1821. — Defense of the infant settlement from an attack by the natives. — Mortality among the early settlers. — Increase of the colony in 1835. — State colonization societies establish settlements. — Consolidation of the state colonies, and establishment of the Commonwealth. — Governor Buchanan's efforts to suppress the slave-trade. — His death, 1841. — Republic of Liberia established in 1847. — Joseph J. Roberts colored first President. — Its independence acknowledged by European powers. — The Republic attacks the slave establishments. — Natural resources of. Liberia — its climate, soil, productions, exports, schools, churches, &c. — Settlements and population. — The Maryland settlement at Cape Palmas | 358 |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| History of Slavery in the North American Colonies. | |
| Early existence of Slavery in England. — Its forms. — The Feudal System. — Serfdom. — Its extinction. — African Slavery introduced into the North American Colonies, 1620. — Slavery in Virginia. — Massachusetts sanctions Negro and Indian slavery, 1641: Kidnapping declared unlawful, 1645. — Negro and Indian slavery authorized in Connecticut, 1650. — Decree against perpetual slavery in Rhode Island, 1652. — Slavery in New Netherland among the Dutch, 1650 — Its mild form. — First slavery statute of Virginia, 1662. — In Maryland, 1663, against amalgamation. — Statute of Virginia, conversion and baptism not to confer freed, m; other provisions, 1667. — Maryland encourages slave-trade. — Slave code of Virginia, 1682. fugitives may lie killed. — New anti-amalgamation act of Maryland, 1681 — Settlement of South Carolina, 1660. — Absolute power conferred on masters. — Law of Slavery in New York, 1665. — Slave code of Virginia, 1692: offenses of slaves, how punishable. — Revision of Virginia code, 1705: slaves made real estate. — Pennsylvania protests against importation of Indian slaves from Carolina, 1705. — New act of 1712 to stop importation of negroes and slaves, prohibition duty of £20. — Act repealed by Queen. — First slave law of Carolina, 1712. — Its remarkable provisions. — Census of 1715. — Maryland code of 1715 — baptism not to confer freedom. — Georgia colonized, 1732: rum and slavery prohibited. — Cruel delusion in New York: plot falsely imputed to negroes to burn the city, 1741. — Slavery legalized in Georgia, 1750. — Review of the state of Slavery in all the colonies in 1750. — Period of the Revolution. — Controversy in Massachusetts on the subject of slavery, 1766 to 1773. — Slaves gain their freedom in the courts of Massachusetts. — Court of King's Bench decision. — Mansfield declares the law of England, 1772. — Continental Congress declares against African slave-trade, 1784 | 369 |
