CHAPTER X. 
Origin tpii: American Negro—British Slave Industry— 
Liberia the American Colony in Africa —24,000 Amer¬ 
ican Born Negroes Have Gone to Liberia—The Troglo¬ 
dytes OF Africa—Pygmies in Central Africa—Who Are 
THE Boers?—The Diamond Mines of Kimberly—Abys¬ 
sinia AND Its Ancient Christian Faith—Ivory, How 
Obtained and Used—Ostrich Farms in Africa and 
California. 
O OME authorities claim that a Dutch man-of-war brought twenty 
^ negroes to the Colony of Virginia in May, 1619. Others claim 
that the ship “Treasurer’' brought 14 to Jamestown in 1620 when 
the colony of Virginia had but 15,000 inhabitants. At any rate all 
seem to agree that the first negroes were landed in Virginia and 
exchanged by the ships bringing them for supplies. It was a lopg 
time before there were any laws recognizing slaves as property. 
The American negro came from the west coast of Africa. It is 
said that the first negroes taken as slaves were glad to escape and 
be taken into captivity by white men. They had been pursued to 
the coast by the stronger tribes of the interior and many were 
massacred. 
Whether the first lot of negroes brought to our country in 1619 
or 1620 as slaves were 20 or 14, we have nearly 10,000,000 of them 
in our country now, and they are a force in our social and political 
life to be reckoned with. 
England’s connection with Africa was originally through the 
iniquitous slave-trade. Slave-trading having been legalized by an 
act during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, her chief naval com¬ 
mander, Sir John Plawkins, sailed at once to Sierra Leone, seized 
three hundred negroes, carried them to Hayti, and sold them there. 
Between 1686 and 1786, more than two million slaves were imported 
into the English colonies. In 1771, 192 slave-ships left England for 
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