IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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CHAPTER XXYIII. 
SLAVERY, SLAVE-TRADE. 
Hlavery deserves notice as a African institution. 
This institution in Africa, as for more than two 
centuries in America, is the sum of all villainies,’^ 
and to such an extent is this system of villainy 
carried on, that it is supposed by some that two 
thirds of the entire population of that country 
are slaves to the other third. 
Slavery and the domestic slave-trade in Africa, 
as they were in America, are the prolific sources 
of infinite sufiering; alike in their general features, 
cursing both master and slave. 
When slaves are taken from one place to an- 
other, they are packed into canoes as sacks of 
grain are put into wagons in this country ; and 
thus, with little or no food, they are often left for 
several days together. 
The customs and laws of that country, as in 
slave states, bear the cruel impress of slavery, and 
certain classes of free people have no security that 
