Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 22: March, 1846
The principle of colonization is the most effectual and economical method of attaining this object. The whole slave trading coast of Western Africa, is estimated at four thousand miles, which if in the market at $133% a mile, the estimated value of the tract which the American Coloniza tion Society is now attempting to pur chase, would cost The ex pense, including interest on the first costfor two years, of our squadron of eighty guns, which the United States is bound by the Ashburton treaty, to keep on the African coast for the suppression of the slave trade, is being enough to buy the whole four thousand miles and leave a surplus of while the an nual expense of the British squadrons employed in watching the slave trade for several years past has been estimated at about two millions and a half. According to a Parliamentary return of 1843, the total expense to the British government of every thing connected with the suppression of this trade, including her settle ments on the African coast estab lished for that purpose, drawn Up with great care from official docu ments, amounted to or about down to the beginning of 1839. The inefficien cy of this immense naval expendi ture is thus alluded to in the London Morning Herald - It is now sixty years since Englishmen directed their attention to the suppression of this destructive traffic, and forty four years since England employed her great naval power to crush this scourge of Africa, this disgrace to Christian nations, and indelible blot on the civilized world; all her exer tions have, however, been fruitless.
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