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peans would condemn. They now belong to the civi- 

 lised system : they are subject to the Law of Opinion. 

 Already they have been compelled by that mysterious 

 power to suppress the slave-making wars which were 

 formerly waged every year from Kordofan and Sen- 

 naar, and which are still being waged from the inde- 

 pendent kingdoms of Darfur, Waday, Baghirmi, and 

 Bornou. Wherever the Turks reign, a European is 

 allowed to travel; wherever a European travels, a 

 word is spoken on behalf of the oppressed. That 

 word enters the newspapers ; passes into a diplomatic 

 remonstrance; becomes a firman ; and a governor or com- 

 mandant in some sequestered province of an Oriental 

 Empire suffers the penalty of his misdeeds. It 

 should be the policy of European powers to aid the 

 destruction of all savage kingdoms, or at least never 

 to interfere on their behalf. 



It has now been shown that a vast region within 

 the Dark Continent, the world beyond the sandy ocean, 

 is governed by Asiatic laws, and has attained an Asia- 

 tic civilization. We must next pass to the Atlantic 

 side, and study the effects which have been produced 

 among the negroes by the intercourse of Europeans. 

 It will be found that the transactions on the coast of 

 Guinea belong not only to the biography of Africa, 

 but also to universal history, and that the domestica- 

 tion of the negro has indirectly assisted the material 

 progress of Europe, and the development of its morality. 

 The programme of the next chapter will be as follows : 

 The rise of Europe out of darkness ; the discovery of 

 Western Africa by the Portugese ; the institution of 

 the slave trade ; and the history of that great repub- 

 lican and philanthropic movement which won its 

 first victory in the abolition of the slave trade, 1807 ; 

 its last in the taking of Richmond, 1865. 



