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Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic) (search for this): entry slavery
Slavery. In 1562 John Hawkins, an English navigator, seeing the want of slaves in the West Indies, determined to enter upon the piratical traffic. Several London gentlemen contributed funds liberally for the enterprise. Three ships were provided, and with these and 100 men Hawkins sailed to the coast of Guinea, where, by bribery, deception, treachery, and force, he procured at least 300 negroes and sold them to the Spaniards in Hispaniola, or Santo Domingo, and returned to England with a rich freight of pearls, sugar, and ginger. The nation was shocked by the barbarous traffic, and the Queen (Elizabeth) declared to Hawkins that, if any of the Africans were carried away without their own consent, it would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers. He satisfied the Queen and continued the traffic, pretending that it was for the good of the souls of the Africans, as it introduced them to Christianity and civilization. Already negro slaves had
Africa (search for this): entry slavery
Slavery. In 1562 John Hawkins, an English navigator, seeing the want of slaves in the West Indies, determined to enter upon the piratical traffic. Several London gentlemen contributed funds liberally for the enterprise. Three ships were provided, and with these and 100 men Hawkins sailed to the coast of Guinea, where, by bribery, deception, treachery, and force, he procured at least 300 negroes and sold them to the Spaniards in Hispaniola, or Santo Domingo, and returned to England with a rich freight of pearls, sugar, and ginger. The nation was shocked by the barbarous traffic, and the Queen (Elizabeth) declared to Hawkins that, if any of the Africans were carried away without their own consent, it would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers. He satisfied the Queen and continued the traffic, pretending that it was for the good of the souls of the Africans, as it introduced them to Christianity and civilization. Already negro slaves had b
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry slavery
Hispaniola, or Santo Domingo, and returned to England with a rich freight of pearls, sugar, and ginn years before a few negroes had been sold in England, and it is said that Queen Elizabeth's scruplby King Philip V. of Spain, and Queen Anne of England reserved for herself the other quarter. So tng the tax was passed by the Assembly, but in England it met the fate of similar bills from other cs, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where mes with slaves, who should neither trouble Great Britain with fears of encouraging political indeper of 14,000 slaves then with their masters in England, involving a loss to their owners of $3,500,0his case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore the black must be discharged. f convention between the United States and Great Britain were signed at London, by diplomatists appW. Huskisson and Sir Stratford Canning for Great Britain. On March 6, 1857, Roger B. Taney, chie[5 more...]
Europe (search for this): entry slavery
rom prohibiting the importation altogether. It was contrary to revolutionary principles, and ought not to be permitted. A warm debate ensued. It called forth the opposition of South Carolinians and Georgians particularly. Jackson, of Georgia, made a vehement speech in opposition, in the course of which he said he hoped the proposition would be withdrawn, and that if it should be brought forward again it would comprehend the white slaves as well as the black imported from all the jails of Europe—wretches convicted of the most flagrant crimes, who were brought in and sold without any duty whatever. This was an allusion to the indentured white servants who were sold by the captains of vessels on their arrival here to pay the cost of their passage, a practice which had been put a stop to by the Revolutionary War, but partially revived. The motion was finally withdrawn. In 1804 a provision was inserted into the act organizing the Territory of Orleans, that no slaves should be carri
Washington (United States) (search for this): entry slavery
nce of the slaveholders was brought to bear so powerfully upon the administration that the government protested against what it was pleased to call the odious British doctrine of the right of search. The British government, for prudential reasons, put a stop to the practice and laid the blame on the officers of the cruisers. On April 7, 1862, a treaty was coneluded between the United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave-trade, and signed at the city of Washington, D. C. By it ships of the respective nations should have the right of search of suspected slave-ships; but that right was restricted to vessels of war authorized expressly for that object, and in no case to be exercised with respect to a vessel of the navy of either of the powers, but only as regards merchant vessels. Nothing was done under this treaty, as the emancipation proclamation and other circumstances made action unnecessary. In his annual message to the Confederate Congress (No
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): entry slavery
74 the Continental Congress, while releasing the colonies from other provisions of the American Association (q. v.), had expressly resolved that no slave be imported into any of the United States. Delaware, by her constitution, and Virginia and Maryland by special laws, had prohibited the importation of slaves. Similar prohibitions were in force in all the more northern States; but they did not prevent the merchants of those States from carrying on the slave-trade elsewhere, and already some laws, but it gave occasion to a rival domestic slave-trade, of which the national capital had become one of the centres, where it was carried on by professional traffickers in human beings. They bought up the slaves of impoverished planters of Maryland and Virginia, and sold them at large profits in the cotton-growing districts of the South and West. This new traffic, which included many of the worst features of the African slave-trade, was severely denounced by John Randolph, of Virginia, as
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry slavery
at slave-dealers. The first slaves were introduced into the English-American colonies by a Dutch trader, who, in 1619, sold twenty of them to the settlers at Jamestown, Va. After that the trade between North America and Africa was carried on quite vigorously; but some of the colonies remonstrated, and in the Continental Congress, and also in the public mind, there was a strong desire evinced to abolish the slave-trade. Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick were banished from the colony of Massachusetts, in 1658, under penalty of death if they should return. Their crime was the embracing of the principles and mode of worship of the Quakers. Their two children remained behind in extreme poverty. They were fined for non-attendance upon the public worship carried on by their persecutors. The magistrates insisted that the fine must be paid, and passed the following order: Whereas, Daniel Southwick and Provided Southwick, son and daughter of Lawrence Southwick, absenting themselves from
Ipswich, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry slavery
rime was the embracing of the principles and mode of worship of the Quakers. Their two children remained behind in extreme poverty. They were fined for non-attendance upon the public worship carried on by their persecutors. The magistrates insisted that the fine must be paid, and passed the following order: Whereas, Daniel Southwick and Provided Southwick, son and daughter of Lawrence Southwick, absenting themselves from the public ordinances, having been fined by the courts of Salem and Ipswich, pretending they have no estates, and resolving not to work, the court, upon perusal of a law-which was made upon account of debts, in what should be done for the satisfaction of the fines, resolves, that the treasurers of the several counties are and shall be fully empowered to sell said persons to any of the English natives at Virginia or Barbadoes to answer the said fines. Endicott, it is said, urged the execution of the measure with vehemence; but, to the honor of the marine service, n
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry slavery
permission not to extend to negroes introduced into the United States since 1798. The object of this provision was to guard against the effects of an act recently adopted by the legislature of South Carolina for reviving the slave-trade after a cessation of it, as to that State, for fifteen years, and of six years as to the whole Union. This was a consequence of the vast increase and profitableness of cotton culture, made so by Whitney's cottongin. On Feb. 15, 1804, the legislature of New Jersey, by an almost unanimous vote, passed an act to abolish slavery in that State by securing freedom to all persons born there after July 4 next ensuing, the children of slave parents to become free, masculine at twenty-five years of age, feminine at twenty-one. The rapid extension of settlements in the Southwest after the War of 1812-15, and the great profits derived there from the cultivation of cotton, not only caused the revival of the African slave-trade, in spite of prohibitory laws
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): entry slavery
er to admit shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight; but a tax, or duty, may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. The idea of prohibiting the African slave-trade, then warmly advocated, was not new. In 1774 the Continental Congress, while releasing the colonies from other provisions of the American Association (q. v.), had expressly resolved that no slave be imported into any of the United States. Delaware, by her constitution, and Virginia and Maryland by special laws, had prohibited the importation of slaves. Similar prohibitions were in force in all the more northern States; but they did not prevent the merchants of those States from carrying on the slave-trade elsewhere, and already some New England ships were engaged in a traffic from the African coast to Georgia and South Caro lina. These States were forgetful of or indifferent to the pledges they had made through their delegates in
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