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Yes
!
The
number
of
slaves
who
arrive
at
the
coast
is
estimated
at
not
less
than
eighty
thousand
;
and
this
number
,
it
appears
,
only
represents
the
tenth
of
natives
massacred
.
After
these
dreadful
butcheries
the
devastated
fields
are
deserted
,
the
burnt
villages
are
without
inhabitants
,
the
rivers
carry
down
dead
bodies
,
deer
occupy
the
country
.
Livingstone
,
the
day
after
one
of
these
men-hunts
,
no
longer
recognized
the
provinces
he
had
visited
a
few
months
before
.
All
the
other
travelers
--
Grant
,
Speke
,
Burton
,
Cameron
,
and
Stanley
--
do
not
speak
otherwise
of
this
wooded
plateau
of
Central
Africa
,
the
principal
theater
of
the
wars
between
the
chiefs
.
In
the
region
of
the
great
lakes
,
over
all
that
vast
country
which
feeds
the
market
of
Zanzibar
,
in
Bornou
and
Fezzan
,
farther
south
,
on
the
banks
of
the
Nyassa
and
the
Zambesi
,
farther
west
,
in
the
districts
of
the
upper
Zaire
,
which
the
daring
Stanley
has
just
crossed
,
is
seen
the
same
spectacle
--
ruins
,
massacres
,
depopulation
.
Then
will
slavery
in
Africa
only
end
with
the
disappearance
of
the
black
race
;
and
will
it
be
with
this
race
as
it
is
with
the
Australian
race
,
or
the
race
in
New
Holland
?
But
the
market
of
the
Spanish
and
Portuguese
colonies
will
close
some
day
.
That
outlet
will
be
wanting
.
Civilized
nations
can
no
longer
tolerate
the
slave
trade
!
Yes
,
without
doubt
;
and
this
year
even
,
1878
,
ought
to
see
the
enfranchisement
of
all
the
slaves
still
possessed
by
Christian
States
.
However
,
for
long
years
to
come
the
Mussulman
nations
will
maintain
this
traffic
,
which
depopulates
the
African
continent
.
It
is
for
them
,
in
fact
,
that
the
most
important
emigration
of
the
blacks
is
made
,
as
the
number
of
natives
snatched
from
their
provinces
and
brought
to
the
eastern
coast
annually
exceeds
forty
thousand
.
Long
before
the
expedition
to
Egypt
the
negroes
of
the
Seunaar
were
sold
by
thousands
to
the
negroes
of
the
Darfour
,
and
reciprocally
.
General
Bonaparte
was
able
to
buy
a
pretty
large
number
of
these
blacks
,
of
whom
he
made
organized
soldiers
,
like
the
Mamelukes
.
Since
then
,
during
this
century
,
of
which
four-fifths
have
now
passed
away
,
commerce
in
slaves
has
not
diminished
in
Africa
.
On
the
contrary
.
And
,
in
fact
,
Islamism
is
favorable
to
the
slave
trade
.
The
black
slave
must
replace
the
white
slave
of
former
times
,
in
Turkish
provinces
.
So
contractors
of
every
origin
pursue
this
execrable
traffic
on
a
large
scale
.
They
thus
carry
a
supplement
of
population
to
those
races
,
which
are
dying
out
and
will
disappear
some
day
,
because
they
do
not
regenerate
themselves
by
labor
.
These
slaves
,
as
in
the
time
of
Bonaparte
,
often
become
soldiers
.
With
certain
nations
of
the
upper
Niger
,
they
compose
the
half
of
the
armies
of
the
African
chiefs
.
Under
these
circumstances
,
their
fate
is
not
sensibly
inferior
to
that
of
free
men
.
Besides
,
when
the
slave
is
not
a
soldier
,
he
is
money
which
has
circulation
;
even
in
Egypt
and
at
Bornou
,
officers
and
functionaries
are
paid
in
that
money
.
William
Lejean
has
seen
it
and
has
told
of
it
.
Such
is
,
then
,
the
actual
state
of
the
trade
.
Must
it
be
added
that
a
number
of
agents
of
the
great
European
powers
are
not
ashamed
to
show
a
deplorable
indulgence
for
this
commerce
.
Nevertheless
,
nothing
is
truer
;
while
the
cruisers
watch
the
coasts
of
the
Atlantic
and
the
Indian
Oceans
,
the
traffic
goes
on
regularly
in
the
interior
,
the
caravans
walk
on
under
the
eyes
of
certain
functionaries
,
and
massacres
,
where
ten
blacks
perish
to
furnish
one
slave
,
take
place
at
stated
periods
!
