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Dick Sands, the Boy Captain, Tr. [From Un Capitaine de Quinze ANS] by E.E. Frewer

Dick Sands, the Boy Captain, Tr. [From Un Capitaine de Quinze ANS] by E.E. Frewer


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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. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...were lurking by the river; it was indeed the dreaded tzetsy that Cousin Benedict had so triumphantly discovered; and, last of all, it was a lion's roar that had disturbed the silence of the forest. That chain, that knife, those forks, were unquestionably the instruments of slavedealers; and what could those mutilated hands be, except the relics of their ill-fated victims? Harris and Negoro must be in a conspiracy! It was with terrible anguish that Dick gnashed his teeth and muttered, --"Yes, it is too true; we are in Africa! in equatorial Africa! in the land of slavery! in the very haunt of slavedrivers!" END OF FIRST PART. PART THE SECOND. CHAPTER I. THE DARK CONTINENT. The "slave-trade" is an expression that ought never to have found its way into any human language. After being long practised at a large profit by such European nations as had possessions beyond the seas, this abominable traffic has now for many years been ostensibly forbidden; yet even in the enlightenment of this nineteenth century, it is still largely carried on, especially in Central Africa, inasmuch as there are several states, professedly Christian, whose signatures have never been affixed to the deed of abolition. Incredible as it should seem, this barter of human beings still exists, and for the due comprehension of the second part of Dick Sands' story it must be borne in mind, that for the purpose of supplying certain colonies with slaves, there continue to be prosecuted such barbarous "man-hunts" as threaten almost to lay waste an entire continent with blood, fire, and pillage. The nefarious traffic as far as regards negroes does not appear to have arisen until the fifteenth century. The following are said to be the circumstances under which it had its origin....


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  • ISBN-13: 9781234343897
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1234343894
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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