Show wm SLAVERY IN under the protection of tha star spangled led banner the alia moors and jews Cont conduct icet the horrible trade in human fluman flesh and blood under shelter of our oar flag two mii millions iiona of slaves mails made every eveia year tear there are still slaves slave in africa and the slave trade in one country countr y at least is carried on under the protection of the american lag flag it is accompanied by wholesale bloodshed pillage and all the nameless horrors inseparable from treating human beings as aa chattels those statements were made in a recent lecture before the american geographical society by U mr r aleli chatelain who is 0 ci edited credited with as wide a knowledge kno wedge of africa Afric africans aas as any man living ile he was formerly united states commercial cm mercial agent a ent at loanda in wet vent we t africa he is ia the author of several grammars of the native languages and has translated two of the gospels into the native IaD language guage of angola it is in morocco particularly that the stars arid and stripes lend their protection to the lave llave L trade 7 I 1 aa july the ahe 01 ve 4 vp colety callec h I 1 a t 1 W jian of olour odi go 1 thel th qi i ra U at ar epan by TV 0 I 1 ow ou selves under tinder the protection of the american Atlie rican flag in order to practice tica this business slave dealing deadio and e slave ave holding are legal L under mohammedan ici hammeran ham an rute rule and public sales of slaves laves i take place today even in tangier almost within sight of gabr gibraltar alta r in sus and small children are sold and find ready purchasers not only among the moors but equally among the th e jews in tripoli the same ties prevails sir chatelain declares that out of the inhabitants of africa are slaves only a few years ago ago explorer Caine Cai ceron roa estimated that that human beings are yearly carried away into slavery if I 1 shut my eyes he said 1 I see the villages villas burning I 1 hear the shouts and musketry of and the cries of their victims 7 if the estimate of the dri british lish and foreign anti slavery society is correct lives are at the present time sacrificed every year for the maintenance of the tha african homo home slavery in the islands of zanzibar and bemba alone which are entirely governed by great britain ate aie held in bondage for each slave that reaches the coast eight ci lit or nine a re said to perish anthe on the way down and in the interior to so that the supply of slaves slave annually smuggled into zanzibar and of smuggled into Arabia represents the murdering mui dering of some in the regions whence the slaves are drawn from zanzibar the slaves can call legally be ba transferred to bemba whence i it is easy to ship them thein to arabia and persia over 1500 dhows chows are engaged in this business from this example of slavery in two small islands one may form an idea of the enormity of the evil over the whole face of the dark continent in egypt the traffic ic is repressed by english officials the alave trade is by no means extinct on the west inest coast of tho the red ked sea a brisk slave trade is carried on oil with impunity the trans port says mr J theodore bent the explorer of Masho is 13 done in in chows dhows from tile the arabian coast which come over to the coral reels of the western side ostensibly for pearl ft ething hing th tha many little harbors formed in the coral reefs offer every assistance to the arab dhows chows and the practice will continue until the of the soudan ii ia accod accomplished shed in the eastern soudan the khali fd fa has a large number of Se ribas or armed stations whence his men start on their raiding expeditions for the capture of slaves in zanzibar and bemba the plantation labor the hard work in the harbors the warehouses and the streets sliced and tile the of ofes expeditions ions to interior africa are all al performed by slaves algoet all al these thee slaves are as confessed by the british government illegally held because smuggled into the islands in spite of formal treaties in zanzibar Zan ibar women prisoners can be seen every day chained together toge in gangs or of about seven beven and work ing under tinder the super aion of a policeman armed with alash the power of the east african arabs is fairly broken tib benjoya Ti enjoys the fruits of his rapines kapines at zanzibar and has probable pio bably forever bid adieu to congo and tanganyika gt ga nyika anika Ra ramalia maliza whose name he who destroys utterly after afier fighting unsuccessfully with the belgians on the other eide and wit with the germans on this side bide of lake tanganyika escaped to zanzibar nearly all the chiefs who have survived the recent campaigns carried on against them by the clodgo state by germany and by tile dritch of nyasha land aro are in subjection and the only slave trading in baesa a land is that ft aich is carried on by the native tribes among themselves of whom the angoni are the worst of findeis on the angoni i ays a missionary in avassa land lios possess sess from to slaves the possession ol of poor creatures is a strip of goat or cat skin around their loins they are kept in in subjection by two species of terrorism first is the spear abc s ec 0 r arelt which I 1 as i administered to tho the friends of a ati fugitive etive slave sometimes dome timea to fifty persons at a time thile in one village the other day eleven persons lay dead from this cause mr Cliate chatelain lain has organized a Phi lafrican liberators leape league 0 iu in this country its object is to acquire land in various ports parts of africa and establish colonies where the natives can live in peace an and d industry N Y journal |