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WESTERN AFRICA. 
can soil, who came to a premature death by 
the slave trade, testify of the sufferings they 
endured, we would be filled with horror, 
and almost hate our race. But the injury 
done them involved vastly more than loss 
of life and physical sufferings. Other re- 
sults, quite as prolific of suffering -and 
injustice, grew out of the slave trade. 
To get a cargo of flesh, bone and blood, 
the trader would say to the headman of a 
town, or the king of a country, You get me 
so many slaves, and I will give you so much 
powder, tobacco and rum. 
Thus petty wars were instigated, which to 
this day are carried on by some of the 
tribes for the procurement of slaves. By 
slave traders the elements of hell were in- 
troduced, and they have been kept in motion, 
and still cause murder and rapine, with 
cruel and bloody hands and insatiate maw, 
to Walk through that dark land, diffusing 
everywhere distrust, hate and misery. 
I will not detail the injuries done them 
by the slave traffic, for their name is legion. 
But if the blood of Abel cried to God from 
the ground for vengeance, surely the tears 
