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| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Christian Slavery in Northern Africa. | |
| Barbary — the Carthaginians, the Romans, the Vandals. — Northern Africa annexed to the Greek Empire. — Conquered by the Saracens. — The Spanish Moors pass over to Africa. — Their expeditions to plunder the coasts of Spain, and carry off the Christian Spaniards into Slavery. — Cardinal Ximenes invades Barbary, 1509, to release the captives. — Barbarossa, the sea-rover, becomes king of Algiers. — The Christian Slaves build tbe mole. — Expeditions of Charles V. against the Moors. — Insurrection of the Slaves. — Charles releases 20,000 Christians from Slaverv and curies off 10,000 Mohammedans to be reduced to Slavery in Spain. — The Moors retaliate by seizing 6000 Minorcans for Slaves. Second expedition of Charles — its disastrous termination — his army destroyed — prisoners sold into Slavery. — The Algerines extend their depredations into the English Channel. — Condition of the Christian slaves in Barbary — treated with more humanity than African slaves among Christians. — Ransom of the Slaves by their countrymen. — British Parliament appropriates money for the purpose. — The French send bomb vessels in 1688. — Lord Exmouth in 1816 releases 3000 captives, and puts an end to Christian Slavery in Barbary | 68 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| African Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. | |
| Negroland, or Nigritia, described. — Slavery among the Natives. — Mungo Park's estimate of the number of Slaves. — The Portuguese navigators explore the African coast. — Natives first carried off in 1434. — Portuguese establish the Slave-Trade on the Western Coast — followed by the Spaniards. — America discovered — colonized by the Spaniards, who reduce the Natives to Slavery — they die by thousands in consequence. — The Dominican priests intercede for them. — Negroes from Africa substituted as Slaves, 1510. — Cardinal Ximenes remonstrates. — Charles V. encourages the trade. — Insurrection of the Slaves at Segovia. — Other nations colonize America. — First recognition of the Slave-Trade by the English government in 1562, reign of Elizabeth. — First Negroes imported into Virginia in a Dutch vessel in 1620. — The French and other commericial notions engage in the traffic. — The great demand for Slaves on the African coast. — Negroes fighting and kidnapping each other. — Slave factories established by the English, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. — Slave factory described. — How Slaves were procured in the interior | 93 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Slave Traffic of the Levant — Nubian Slaves. | |
| The Mohammedan slave-trade. — Nubian slaves captured for the slave market of the Levant. — Mohammed Ali. — Grand expeditions for hunting. — Annual tribute of slaves. — The encampment. — Attack upon the villages. — Courage of the Natives. — Their heroic resistance. — Cruelty of the victors. — Destruction of villages. — The captives sold into slavery | 102 |
