THE INTRODUCTION AND PROGRESS OF COMMERCIAL SLAVERY IN AMERICA.. The Mainland ravaged by the Spaniards for Indian Slaves to supply the West Indies. 187 The Conversion of the Indians the Foundation of the Conquest-according to Ferdi- PAGE The English obtain the Asiento Contract to supply the Spanish Colonies with Slaves, 1713... 197 The Yellow Fever carried to Vera Cruz, Mexico, by an English ship loaded with 198 The English House of Commons sustain the Slave-trade by Resolutions and Appropriations .... 198 Extent of the English Slave-trade..... 198 The English Government refuses to listen to the Protest of the American Colonies against the Slave-trade....... 198 Remarks on the Constitution Declaration of Independence. The Romance of the Declaration, and the Reality of the Constitution.. Treaties recognizing Slaves as Property 202 203 204 205 Difficulties under which the Framers of the Constitution labored.. Initiatory Measures of Abolition in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, 211 New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina.. Abolition of Slavery in New Hampshire..... Constitutional Slave trade, its Abolition by the United States, 1808. 214 214 215 Release of 7,000,000 Indian Slaves on the Continent of America.. History of Indian Slavery in Mexico and the Spanish American countries generally... 227 Abolition of Slavery in the French West Indies and other French colonies by PAGE 238 238 239 240 243 243 247 247 248 252 253 France...... Number of Slaves liberated by France.... Abolition in the Danish Islands by Denmark...... Abolition in the Swedish island of St. Bartholomew by Sweden.. Fall of Slavery in St. Domingo.. Spanish Islands-Cuba.. Porto Rico.... Decline of Commercial Slavery in the United States of North America. Number of Slaves imported into America from 1500 to 1850. CONCLUSION. 268 . 270 .. 271 |