East African Slavery. 
sacred feelings of the human breast, and breaks down 
every hallowed institution it may meet in its destruc- 
tive course. Marriage and home life it utterly con- 
temns ; one of its earliest enormities being to break 
up the family circle, and scatter the members of it to 
the winds. What right have these people to love 
each other } Marriage set aside, and family bonds 
snapped asunder, followed by a life of extreme hard- 
ship, the heart grows so callous^that the purer feel- 
ings of human nature die out ; and without natural 
affection " the door to unbridled license is thrown 
open ; and thus a social condition is established, the 
evils of which it would take many pages to describe, 
and dark indeed would those pages be ! 
Then there is the reflex influence which slavery 
exerts upon the slave-owners, hanging like a millstone 
about their necks, and dragging them down to its own 
degradation. It makes them arrogant, pitiless, licen- 
tious, voluptuous, and eff'eminate to the last degree. 
Developing all the worst passions, it hardens the 
heart, and leads to a low estimate of human life. 
Suppose a man beats his slave to death : what of 
it } may he not do what he will with his own } Or 
he kills the slave of another : what then } he pays 
the slave's price, twenty or thirty dollars, and the 
matter is at an end! The following account, taken 
from the lips of a slave, will illustrate this part of the 
subject 'T am a Mgindo. I don't know anything 
of my early life. The first I remember of myself is, 
that when very young I was with my father at Kiloa. 
I think it likely I was brought to the coast on my 
mother's back, when quite an infant, of course in con- 
nection with a slave caravan. At length my father 
