CONTENTS
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THE NAVY AND THE SLAVE-TRADE
- Story of the Half-hearted, Wholly Futile Work of Blockading the African Coast — Reward of an Officer Who Earnestly Strove to Stop the Trade — An Interesting Period in the Career of Commodore M, C. Perry — American and British Squadrons Compared — The Sham Work of the Buchanan Administration,Page 148
FREE-NEGRO COLONIES AND THE SLAVE-TRADE
- England Led the Way by Establishing a Colony at Sierra Leone to Provide a Home for Negroes Carried from the United States during the Revolutionary War — The Enterprise Saved by the Sturdy Maroons — Origin of the American Society for Colonizing Free People of Color — Life of the Colonists at Cape Mesurado — The Nation of Liberia Organized — An Ape of Philanthropy,Page 160
TALES OF THE COASTWISE SLAVE-SHIPS
- Colored Men from New York Prison Sent to New Orleans and Sold — Stealing Slaves in New Jersey for the Southwest Market — Coastwise Slavers that Lost their Human Cargoes in British Islands — Madison Washington a Negro Worthy of his Name — Joshua R. Giddings and the Coastwise Trade — Extent of the Coastwise Traffic,Page 173
STORY OF THE AMISTAD
- A Cuban Coastwise Slaver that may have been Used to Smuggle Slaves Into the United States — On the Way from Havana to Puerto Principe the Slaves Overpowered the Crew, and Started Back to Africa, but were Beguiled to Long Island — Judicially Decided that Slaves Unlawfully Held have a Right to Take Human Life in a Stroke for Liberty,Page 184
