The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign

The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign

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THE
SLAVE TRADE,
Domestic and Foreign:
WHY IT EXISTS, AND HOW IT MAY BE EXTINGUISHED.
BY H. C. CAREY,
AUTHOR OF "PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY," "THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE," ETC. ETC.

PREFACE.
The subject discussed in the following pages is one of great importance, and especially so to the people of this country. The views presented for consideration differ widely from those generally entertained, both as regards the cause of evil and the mode of cure; but it does not follow necessarily that they are not correct,--as the reader may readily satisfy himself by reflecting upon the fact, that there is scarcely an opinion he now holds, that has not, and at no very distant period, been deemed quite as heretical as any here advanced. In reflecting upon them, and upon the facts by which they are supported, he is requested to bear in mind that the latter are, with very few exceptions, drawn from writers holding views directly opposed to those of the author of this volume; and not therefore to be suspected of any exaggeration of the injurious effects of the system here treated as leading to slavery, or the beneficial ones resulting from that here described as tending to establish perfect and universal freedom of thought, speech, action, and trade.
Philadelphia, March, 1853.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
THE WIDE EXTENT OF SLAVERY

CHAPTER II.
OF SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH COLONIES

CHAPTER III.
OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER IV.
OF EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH COLONIES

CHAPTER V.
HOW MAN PASSES FROM POVERTY AND SLAVERY TOWARD WEALTH AND FREEDOM

CHAPTER VI.
HOW WEALTH TENDS TO INCREASE

CHAPTER VII.
HOW LABOUR ACQUIRES VALUE AND MAN BECOMES FREE

CHAPTER VIII.
HOW MAN PASSES FROM WEALTH AND FREEDOM TOWARD POVERTY AND SLAVERY

CHAPTER IX.
HOW SLAVERY GREW, AND HOW IT IS NOW MAINTAINED, IN THE WEST INDIES

CHAPTER X.
HOW SLAVERY GREW AND IS MAINTAINED IN THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER XI.
HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN PORTUGAL AND TURKEY

CHAPTER XII.
HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN INDIA

CHAPTER XIII.
HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND

CHAPTER XIV.
HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER XV.
HOW CAN SLAVERY BE EXTINGUISHED?

CHAPTER XVI.
HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN NORTHERN GERMANY

CHAPTER XVII.
HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN RUSSIA

CHAPTER XVIII.
HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN DENMARK

CHAPTER XIX.
HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN SPAIN AND BELGIUM

CHAPTER XX.
OF THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER XXI.
OF THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND

THE SLAVE TRADE, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN.

CHAPTER I.
THE WIDE EXTENT OF SLAVERY.
Slavery still exists throughout a large portion of what we are accustomed to regard as the civilized world. In some countries, men are forced to take the chance of a lottery for the determination of the question whether they shall or shall not be transported to distant and unhealthy countries, there most probably to perish, leaving behind them impoverished mothers and sisters to lament their fate. In others, they are seized on the highway and sent to sea for long terms of years, while parents, wives, and sisters, who had been dependent on their exertions, are left to perish of starvation, or driven to vice or crime to procure the means of support. In a third class, men, their wives, and children, are driven from their homes to perish in the road, or to endure the slavery of dependence on public charity until pestilence shall Send them to their graves, and thus clear the way for a fresh supply of others like themselves. In a fourth, we see men driven to selling themselves for long periods at hard labour in distant countries, deprived of the society of parents, relatives, or friends. In a fifth, men, women, and children are exposed to sale, and wives are separated from