| Show british slave trade in mauritius in a work which has just made its appearance in in philadelphia under the title till u 1 of I 1 pour 0 o ur Y years e ars aboard the 11 there are some curious revelations concerning the slave traffie traffic under british bri hish lule rul e in in the maun bious the auth author or mr hit ecar though a common sr sc clr il jr appears f from rom the internal evidence evi Jence of his boik 0 o be a trustworthy arid and intelligent hitA igent observer and until his ssta lement re ie ceide ceide an authoritative contradiction we see no reason for quest questioning ionin t their heir correctness in describing the notley motley tion of the island mr accounts for the presence of 0 the emilii bar and madagascar natives in such large numbers nur obeis by the that they are purchased from the native chiefs by english or french traders trader in exchange tor for old muskets legs kegs of poly der jack knives hoop iron iron trinkets beads calico and such other articles as are held in in estrem iem amount the he savages sa they are arc sold ostensibly for fo a term of years ears but in in reality for as long iong as their owners choose to detain them the governor of Maurit ious receiving so much per head as a tor for each one that la is imported into the colony holds out every inducement for their introduction into the i island and from the I 1 crowded state of the shi ships ps that arrived during mr White cara cars sta stay Y he was led to conclude thit that the trade must bo be a thriving therivin one As soon as the si slaves es real reach the colony colon th y are disposed of to the highest bid bidder derand and our author as justly surprised to see ee english auctioneers mounted on their ro rosl strums rons engaged in in selling them as a they voa any an other merchandize merchandise dize the poor urea crea tures lurea he 1 says ays abere ere gathered and arranged in groups and neither sex had iny any other covering than th the e breech cloth in in order that th t their muscular system mig might be displayed di played to the best advantage the th e purchasers who were ere for the m mt mot t pirt part french planters walked walk ed in al angst them examined their muscles it teeth eth and joints made them leap to show th their i activity and in in every va a t that their experience bugge suggested ted satisfied themselves in in regard to their vila adaila bailit ability the only beaving clause in the whole transact i rf was that in in case auy uy ui i tuu one slaves nad a faintly the purchaser was compelled to buy them all together or nai a all orthe of the treatment treaon ent of these thee on the plantations sir mr gives gives anything but a favorable account the overseers over seera apply tha whip without remorse and there is i this worse feature than the ment by lashes on the back in in vogue in our southern states that the blows are generally bestowed c on n the scull the gros gross brutality to avi lich the poor wretches are in general sul subjected ejected may be judged of from the fact that thai lie he saw a policeman calmly looking on N while hile a slave was knocked down and dragged by the waistband over shar sham anoints of the macadamised street with mth nothing to preserve hi his body from laceration lacera e except the ll 11 calico that tha was wound round hil hi aws 1017 s this scene occurred not in in an oV occure obscure cure or auto thol way a placed but t in ill 1 a 1 public street aher 0 people feie were con scantly passing oud who if any feel ee ing ing at all vere ere expressed by them the ni only laughed atthe at the ludicrousness of the cane koerle Her erthen woi we have haie in in a brit british I 1 sh colony under british laws at and alunder a british government ri i slave iii not only of great practical cruelly 2 but buia a traffic that is is con being fed by im por tation uon arid and whilst it our south arfi ern stales there mid ii lai ahli just cation n of a pre preexistent existent aad pi ceceli neca aly siy which cati can only be dispensed w with by time and to the extension of chic it the laws offer ati an effectual effic barrier rier in in the alauni bious where no plea of expadie expediency ney can cail be bd urged in in opposition upp position to positive enactment e enactment the fullest lati latitude latitus is la accorded to it these facts will doi not surprise those who know anything any thiu 11 about john bulls career in tropical trop icil countries countr ies where his true nature can display itself i u unchecked 11 by exeter hall lane t i the objection that we e make is is less to his owning slaves dimse him seif if than to his afta acting such a virtuous horror of N N Y the same practice in others herald |
