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'The Slave Trade of East Africa.' [‎44] (53/108)

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stone was not only alive, but deeply interested in the question
of the slave trade. The feeling aroused was, u let this awful
sacrifice of life be stopped at any cost." The following words,
taken from the u Quarterly Review" for October, 1872, will
find an echo in every heart:—
" In the name of our common humanity we declare that this foulest
form of piracy is an insult and injury to God and man ; and we claim
for civilized Christendom the sacred right of taking its victims into
her protection, and declaring the curse abolished.
" But not only have we the right, we have the power also so to do,
and are therefore responsible for a gross neglect if we refuse to use
it. The fiat of England, Prance, Germany, and America has but to
be uttered to be obeyed. In fact, the Arab mind has for some tims
been apprehending such a result. Lord Palmerston's noble despatch
has long since been translated into Arabic, and read repeatedly in the
Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). to the Sultan. In it the Arab chiefs were warned ; that the
traffic in slaves was doomed to destruction; that Great Britain was
the main instrument in the hand of Providence for the accomplish
ment of this object; that it is useless to oppose what is written in the
book of Pate; that the slave trade shall stop, and that we will be the
instruments in stopping it. ? "
And from the unanimous feeling expressed throughout the
country, wherever the hideous practices of the trade are un
folded, we think we may echo the sentiments of the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
when he trusts—
"That both the Indian and the Home Government will well weigh these
suggestions, and will act with vigour in the matter. It is one which,
from its own character and on account of the interest which will be
raised concerning it in the country when the facts of the case are well
known, will not brook listlessness and half-measures.
"There are, in the evidence taken before the House of Commons and
in the Eeport of their Committee, allusions of a painful kind to differ
ences between different departments of the G-overnment as embar
rassing our action, and so preventing our success, and making our
present expenditure on the cause useless and ridiculous. This must
not continue. It is a case in which half-economy is entire loss. There
must be no _ squabbling between the Government of India and the
Administration at home as to the payment of officers needful to pro
mote the objects of both; no frustrating by the Treasury, in one of
its parsimonious fits, the more statesman like proposals of the Foreign
Office; no starving down of the squadron employed, so as to disgust
its gallant commanders and give the nation the cost of maintaining it
and yet, through a paltry economy, maintaining it in vain.

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The Slave Trade of East Africa.

Author: Edward Hutchinson, F.R.G.S., F.S.A. (Lay Secretary, Church Missionary Society).

Publication details: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, E.C.

Physical Description: 1 map; octavo.

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1 volume (96 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references.

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Dimensions: 220mm x 140mm

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English in Latin script
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