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Carew, impersonated by Lawrence Cecil, his servant William, and a newly arrived chap named Walford set out from the Coast to find the Mungana, accompanied by a Portuguese slave-driver and his flunkies. They arrive at their destination without further ado and find to their delight the diamond fields that had been rumored to exist in the locality. However, complications of a serious nature, arising from the perfidy of the Portuguese, develop when they wish to start back for the coast. In addition the Eternal Triangle is unpleasantly revealed in the thick of the woods, just to make the action...
...Authors. Joseph P. Marquand fellow-townsman of Lord Timothy Dexter, took rank in U. S. letters with Black Cargo, a well-told tale of the slave trade. His present work, eked from scanty material, suffers slightly from padding but maintains a sardonic flavor well suited to the subject...
...progenitor of 80 living descendants, survivor of a wife who had passed away at the age of 95; at Breckenridge, Mo., in the night. For a year he was the family physician of Henry Clay, famed orator. In 1851 Mrs. Clay called him in to treat some slave children on their plantation who had contracted scarlet fever. He became the friend and medical adviser of Mr. Clay, who died...
...mourned Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger, Negro publication. He was writing of the lamentable plight of the Negro Pullman Porter ?poor black amorons who, galvanized by slave psychology, kneel to scrub the boots, rub off the trouser-cuffs of patrons and company officials, too timorous, too servile to better their plight...
...temporary slavery commission reported that slavery is practically wiped out except in the Mohammedan countries of the East. A peonage system of approaching it exiss in parts of Latin America. Abyssinia is the Christian country where it is still practiced, but progress has been made there towards its abolition. Slave raiding is rare except on the borders of the Sahara Desert. In Arabia many girls making pilgrimages from the East are seized and enslaved...