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Subject:    Eople and savages, and we think it right to point this out very clear
From:       Langrum Spoon <rancors () checktools ! net>
Date:       2009-08-30 20:18:30
Message-ID: 4A9ADE11.1060401 () checktools ! net
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He woman fell dead at his feet. [The above narrative is quoted almost
_verbatim_ from _The Story of the Universities' Mission to Central
Africa_, pages 78 and 79, the author of which vouches for its accuracy.]
The facts of this case were known far and wide. The Portuguese Governor
was acquainted with them, as well as the ministers of justice, but no
one put forth a hand to punish the monster, or to protect his slaves.
But vengeance overtook him at last. On his way down the Zambesi he shot
one of his men. The others, roused to irresistible fury, sprang upon him
and strangled him. _Then_, indeed, the Governor and Magistrates were
roused to administer "justice!" They had allowed this fiend to murder
slaves at his will, but no sooner had the slaves turned on and killed
their master than ceaseless energy and resolution were displayed in
punishing those who slew him. Soldiers were sent out in all directions;
some of the canoe-men were shot down like wild beasts, the rest were
recaptured and publicly whipped to death! Reader, this is "domestic
slavery." This is what Portugal and Zanzibar claim the right to
practise. This is what Great Britain has for many years declined to
interfere with. This is the curse with which Africa is blighted at the
present day in some of her fairest lands, and this is what Portugal has
decreed shall not terminate in what she calls her African dominions for
some years to come. In other words, it has been coolly decreed by that
weakest of all the European nations, that slavery, murder, injustice,
and every other conceivable and unmentionable vice and villainy shall
still, for some considerable time, continue to be practised on the men,
women, and children of Africa! Higher up the Shire river, the travellers
saw symptoms of recent distress among the people, which caused them much
concern. Chimbolo, in particular, was rendered very anxious by the
account given of the famine which prevailed still farther up the river,
and the numerous deaths that had taken place in consequence. The cause
of the distress was a common one, and easily explained. Slave-dealers
had induced the Ajawa, a warlike tribe, to declare war against the
people of the Manganja highlands. The Ajawa had d

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