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Show AFIIICAN SLAV mADE. fatnr. nf V,,r I, Inu by an Anierlran Ship a Irrw. The atory of the flret nierlcan in) age to Afrba, uf which we have a i cflnlte record telle tie aouiewhax if I the method! employed In obtaliiimr lavage cargoea A Huston ahlp urn maodeil by one Capt 8m th. wc a I I way to Uaderla with sail Hah an I (Una. galling thence, wkh the in ceda of ber aalo she touched on tb i eoaat of Guinea, fur (Uvea She toun I Mime London nUiie veaacla alrei y there w.th their eiptalna very inu i dlagruntletl liervuae trade waa dull Ihere were Viry tew alavca for i that la and to lis a mntteia n lit 1 1 the lankera nml the lindnmra tinlli I ami on pretauao of some quariel wi li the nntltca landed a murckrer- i n expnss so name of a mull cinnon-nt tarkeil a negro village on 8unday k II id many of the Inhabltanta and undo a few prlaoneia two oi wl om fell In tb ihare of the Iloaton ahlp That w a In 1613 Juat twtuty alx yeare after tie Dutchman lanilt I the alavea In lr-Klnln, lr-Klnln, aa rernnleil b John Holfe, the fltat Amerlrmi aquaw man I nUe pri. tenae, outrage nml alaughter of Innci-centa Innci-centa clmrartcrlied the llrst reroiden gathering of alavea In which tho American Amer-ican ahl,i had part Thcj killed many of the Inhabltanta ' and got two ilavca for their share of the plunder That Capt Smith a act waa nut acrordlnx to tho ordinary usogra of the trade nny be Inferred from what happened when he returned to Iloaton. A quarrel with the ahlp a owner over the procccda of the voyage resulted In a law suit The atory uf tho voage waa told In court, an 1 although It waa not n crlni-Intl crlni-Intl trial, one of tho magistiatee ' charged the master with a three-fold offense murder, man ateallng and Sabbath breaking" The captain e-oaped e-oaped punishment on thete chnrgea on the ground that the court had uu Jurisdiction Juris-diction over crlruea committed in Africa (a deelalon that waa typical of what waa to come) but the two elnrea were returned home 'The Slave Trade In America," by John It Speare In Hcrlbner a. |