Show HOW OLD SLAVERS GOT CARGOES The story of the first American voyage voy-age to Afriiia of which wo have 0 definite record tolls us somewhat of the methods employed in obtaining slavecargoes A Boston ship commanded com-manded by one Capt Smith went away lo Madeira with salt fish and stoves Sailing thence with the proceeds pro-ceeds of her sale the touched on the coast at Guinea for slaves She found some Londo slavevessols already there with their captains very much disgruntled because trade was dull There were very few slaves for sale that in and to liven matters a little the Yankees and the Londoners united and Ion pretense of some quarrel with the natives landed a murderer the expressive name of a small cannon attached negro village in Sunday killed many of the Inhabitants and made 3 few prisoners two of whom fell to the share of the Boston ship That wa81n IBID jnot twentysix years after the Dutchman landed < the slaves In Virginia as recorded by recordct I John Rolfc the first American squaw i man False pretense outragennd the slaughter of Innocents characterized the firstrecorded gathering of slaves In which an American shjp had part They killed many of the Inhabitants and got two slaves for thelr share uf the plunder That CapU Smiths act was not according ac-cording to the ordinary usages of the I trade may be Inferred from what hap I pencil when he returned to Boston A quarrel with the ships owners over the proceeds of the voyage resulted In u lawsuit The stqry of the oya owns o-wns told In court and although It was not u criminal trial one of the magistrates magis-trates charged the master with a threefold offence murder manateal Ing and Sabbathbreaking Tho cap tain escaped punishment on these charges on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction ovqr crimes committed com-mitted in Africa a decision that was typical of what was to come but the I two slaves were returned home From I I The Slavetrade In America by I I John R Shears in the July ScribncrB |