Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... liberia.--the slave trade.--impracticable remedy.--"the missionary colony."--influence on natives.--education, Ac. The Colonization Society claims to hold out a remedy for the slave trade on the coast of Africa. This was no part of its original constitutional object, but answers well the purpose of obtaining aid from the kindly disposed, as 'well as from those engaged in the domestic traffic, who are ever ready to "Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The Rev. David Christy, in his colonization address in Ohio, ' already referred to, says, "The planting and building up of Christian colonies on the African coast is the only practical remedy for the slave trade." The same idea is often advanced, and coupled with it plans for opening a peaceful commerce with Africa, as a substitute for the revolting trade in human beings. Let us look at this project of the society; see how far its statements can be relied on as to what Liberia has done to suppress the slave trade; and what its effect must be on African commerce. All the experience of the past shows the idea of stopping the slave trade by efforts on the coast of Africa futile, so long as the demand exists for slaves; stop the demand, and the trade will cease; let the demand exist, and the trade will go on, its enormous profits enabling slavers to coin money, even if half their ships are lost. Liberia, it is claimed, has banished the traffic from five hundred miles of coast; Sierra Leone from about an equal extent. England has expended on her squadron and colony over one hundred millions of dollars; other nations have lent their aid, and the slave
