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Title: Children's stories of American progress
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Wright, Henrietta Christian. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. he had bought them for gold, and was only-desirous of getting his money back and asmuch more as possible. So the Africans were landed and offered forsale. They had been stolen from their homes,carried like dumb beasts across the Atlantic,and were now to pass into life-long bondage,all because the white man chose to use hisgreater intelligence to oppress instead of be-friend them. The Virginia planters had hitherto depend-ed for servants upon English and German emi-grants, who sold themselves for a certain lengthof time—for so many months or years—receiv-ing in return a specified sum of money. But it seemed a much easier plan to buythese poor negroes once for all, and the littleband of twenty was soon disposed of, passinginto the hands of the highest bidders. Fifty years before the discovery of America,African slavery had been introduced into Eu-rope by Spanish and Portuguese navigators.So that at the time of the landing of the firstslaves at Jamestown, Africa had been for nearly
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FUGITIVE SLAVES. THE STORY OF SLAVERY. l6l two hundred years the great hunting-groundwhere the white races tracked down and merci-lessly captured the ignorant and despised ne-groes. Dreadful tales of outrage and cruelty weretold from time to time in Europe in connectionwith these degrading slave-hunts, but exceptamong a few people, little heed was given tothem. The slave-trade flourished, kings and queensand statesmen giving it their support, and whenit was found that the English colonies in Amer-ica would pay good prices for these poor creat-ures, great companies were formed to carry onthe business of slave-stealing and slave-sell-ing, and strict laws were passed for the pro-tection of the men engaged in this inhumantraffic. The Royal African Company of Great Brit-ain was one of the most powerful agents forsupplying America with slaves, the British Gov-ernment protecting the company with all itsgreat power, and the queen herself owning one-fourth of the stock. 162 THE STORY OF SLAVER

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