Africas Call to America a Discourse Preached in Behalf of the American Coloniz
Africas Call to America a Discourse Preached in Behalf of the American Coloniz
Wilbur Fisk Paddock
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})reying upon and de\-(Turing one another, making merchandise of tlieir children or sacri- ficing them U> their gods. \riw, as for centuries back, those captured in war the\- make sla\'es. I'ift)- thousand of these i)o(_ir creatures are annualK' con- \"e\'ed to the Turkisli and Kg\-ptian ports of the Red Sea and sold into bondage, despite the ef!";-rts of Christian nations to j:)revent it. " The ripen sore of tlie world, " as the great Eng- lish explorer, Li\-ingstone, termed it, is yet far fro...m being healed, Xor lia\e these Powers been much more successful m ameliorating the condition C)f those in bondage to their own ])eople. Tlie slave master in Africa is the most merciless and t\rannous and brutal master in the world. Bad as slaver}- was in the \\ est Indies, and in our own countr\- a few \-ears a£jo we are assured, on the most reliable authorit)-, that it was kind- ness itself compared with the ■-la\ery existing in Africa to-dav. When we think of the hundreds of thousancN in the interior of tlii-^ not inaptl\- called " 1 )ark Continent, " thus crushed under nati\'e masters, and the thousaml'^ nioi\' \-earl\- sold int''.
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