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Show r !Mii,"BAXCUpFT,':iri iiis.first yolumo of ljis. Oistory of thd United 'Stntcs,AgiVc$? aft'accpunt of. thocarl traffic 6; iho Europeans ' iri.slaycs; .r Jn iho,. middio agcs;,tho ' jVnotian pu!haicd)...vhjtd ' mcnChnstianstTarid, ptiicrs,,'' and .sold them "to.' tho. Saracen? in ;Sidily s'an.d, Spain? jfn:'Ehgland'thp; Anglp-Saxon'! nobility .sold their servants ,as ;slaves:'to; foreigners. , Tho-3?ortugucse first, irh-; ported , negro lavcs, f from )Vistcrn Africa. itp Eiirp'pc, Jn?142,,t , Spain j : soon' engaged in' the trafllc,:hnd:' negro i slaves abountlcdiri's'dmd'of -tho nla'Ccs in. that kihgddmv After America1" was : discovered tho Indians .jot, Jlispanipla , werp imported intp .Spain ana madp slaves; Tho Spaniard3vlstcU.3uD, coast of North. America and kidnapped thousands of-- thd.'IhdianS" wliom tlioy transpprtdit-into ilayw-y, in'-Eur fdpc'arid t'jo Wcst Indies., .jCpIumbusJiimself kidnapped nativ.p ,AmWicansJ.'and sent. ihem ih$. Spaih, that "they migjit bo. publiiiy sold'' at; Seville.,4, id practicd of scilijlg Hdrth American Indians into foreign fioncutgc continued; for two centuries . lcgro slavery Iras first introduced into' Amcrica.by Span isli slaveholders, who emigrated with their negroes. A royal edict of Spain authorized negro slavery in Ainorica in 1518. King Ferdinand himself, ecnt from SotfjjUe fifty slaves to labor in the mines Tn 151 the direct traffic in slaves 'between Africa and Ilispaniola was enjoined by a royal ordinatfee,-Iios ordinatfee,-Iios Casas?wlip saW tliolridi&nsvahisli'? ing away before the cruelties of the-Spaniards, the-Spaniards, suggested that tho negroes . who aldno could- enduro. severe, toils, might be f urtlfcr employed Tills, was in 1518. Sir John Hawkins was tho first . Englishman that engaged in the slave-trade. slave-trade. Ja 1652 hp transported a largo carno of Africans to . Ilisnaniola. In 1G5T another expedition Ayas prcpnrcd, and. Queen Elizabeth protected and shared in tho traffic. Hawkins, in one of his expeditions set firp to an African Afri-can dtyj and out, of three thousand inhabitants succeeded in seizing two hundred and sixty, James Smith, of Boston, and Thomas Koysci") first brought the colonics, to participate in slavery. In 1554 they imported a cargo car-go of negroes, Throughout Massachusetts Massa-chusetts the cry of justice was raised ' against them as malefactors and murderers; mur-derers; tho guilty men woro committed for the offense, and the representatives off the peoplo ordered the nogrocs to bo restored to their native country at the public oxpenso. At a. later period,, there word both Indian and negro slaves in Massachusetts. In 1020 a Dutch ship entered James river, and landed twenty nogrocs for sale. This' was. tho epoch, of tho introduction of-; slavery in Virginia For many years, the Dutch were principally concerned in, thd slavP-trade'in the market of Vh ginia. |