Category: Historical Novels
"Encourage the chiefs to go to war, that they may obtain slaves; for as on many accounts we require a large number, we desire you to exert yourself, and not stand out for a price." Such was the direction, and such the order, of the slave-merchants at Cape Coast Castle, to one...
"Encourage the chiefs to go to war, that they may obtain slaves; for as on many accounts we require a large number, we desire you to exert yourself, and not stand out for a pric...
2. CHAPTER II."What's all that Afric's golden rivers roll, Her odorous woods, and shining ivory stores? Ill-fated race! the softening arts of peace, And all-protecting freedom, which alone Su...
3. CHAPTER III."O Slavery---- Profuse of woes, and pregnant with distress, Eternal horrors in thy presence reign; Pale meagre famine leads thy horrid train; To each dire load subjection adds m...
4. CHAPTER IV."Yet was I born as you are, no man's slave, An heir to all that liberal nature gave; My mind can reason, and my limbs can move The same as yours; like yours my heart can love: A...
5. CHAPTER V.* * * the band of commerce is design'd T' associate all the branches of mankind. And if a boundless plenty be the robe, Trade is the golden girdle of the globe: This genial inte...
6. CHAPTER VI."If ever thou hast felt another's pain, If ever when he sigh'd hast sigh'd again; If ever on thine eyelid stood the tear, That pity hath engender'd--drop one here: This man was...
7. CHAPTER VII."Soft airs, and gentle heavings of the wave, Impel the fleet whose errand is to save! But ah! what wish can prosper, or what pray'r, For merchants rich in cargoes of despair. Th...
8. CHAPTER VIII."Authority usurp'd from God, not given. He gave us over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute. That right we hold By his donation: but men over men He made not lord; such title t...
9. CHAPTER IX.The infant Samboe, thus bereaved of his suffering mother, was yet too young to feel the full magnitude of his loss; yet his little heart experienced emotions he had no power to...
10. CHAPTER X."I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd."
11. CHAPTER XI."Thy lips have shed instruction as the dew, Taught me what path to shun, and what pursue. Farewell my former joys! I sigh no more For Africa's once-lov'd, benighted shore: Servi...
12. CHAPTER XII."Theirs the triumph be, Instead of treasure, robb'd by ruffian war, Round social earth to circle fair exchange, And bind the nations in a golden chain. To these I honour'd stoop."