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Show THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. j Americans were inclined to think after the abolition of slavery on their soil, that an end would bo pptediiy put to the remnants of African servitude servi-tude and the slave trade. But tbis anticipation doee not seem to h.ive been fully realized. A paper in the current number of the Wes'-micsler Review shows that a large slave tracia U still carried on from the eastern coast of Africa; that at Uast 500,000 Africans are yearly captured in the interior for the slave markets, of which number only about 70,000! captives reach the coast, the re- maiuder either dying or being massa cred en rout?. The principal slave-boldiug slave-boldiug sUtes of the present day aio Brazil, Egypt, Turkey, Zanzibar, certain portions of Aoia and Mada-gaacar, Mada-gaacar, and Arabs and Portuguese are tlio chie;' niavo-traiwrs. Saveral of thoao countries, iiUb!y Egypt, have expressed their intention and desire to abolish this trade. Slavery, however, is universal in Africa. In dtscugding this subject, the Review Re-view does not seem to viuw the experiments ex-periments of emancipation in a vry favorable light. It quotes Dr. Living-stono, Living-stono, who Bhowa that education with the negro dues not. necessarily Ct bim for helping to elevate the race. " Educated free blacks," says this traveler, "are to be avoided; they are expensive and ore too much of gentleman for your wwrK. ii, saya me itevicw writer, "we look at the present state of Hayti, Siena Leon, and Siberia, tlio attempts of the negro at self-government are not encouraging; these attempts Bccra generally to end in anarchy, in a burlesque bur-lesque of everything civilizad, and constant revolutions. All impartial writers are agreed in considering con-sidering the sudden emancipation of the nogro a great political bluuder." Tho United Statou bas already discovered dis-covered this lact to its sorrow, without respect to ecctional divisions. The emancipation was a grevious burdon to tho southern states, but it is likely to be a more grevious one politically to the northern states, now that cacu adult malo nogro counts a full vote at the ballot box; and this vote will be substantially directed by the whites, thus largely increasing the relative importance of the south in national politics. |