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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
Salle county. The tribe was absent, passing the winter in the chase. On the banks of Lake Peoria, Indians appeared;— 1680 Jan. 4. they were Illinois; and, desirous to obtain axes and fire-arms, they offered the calumet, and agreed to an allianched, pursued Chap. XX.} by enemies at Quebec, and in the wilderness surrounded by uncertain nations, he inspired his men 1680. with resolution to saw trees into plank and prepare a bark; he despatched Louis Hennepin to explore the Upper Mississippie mocthe pubof casins, he, with three companions, set off on foot for Fort Frontenac, to trudge through thickets and for- 1680 Mar. ests, to wade through marshes and melting snows, having for his pathway the ridge of highlands which divide the basininois in 1681. The narrative of Hennepin, the whole of which was printed in 1682, proves conclusively that it happened in 1680, as Frontenac, the governor of Canada, related at the time. When, therefore, La Salle returned to Illinois, with large
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
tself powers of legislation, gave a legal expression to the well-formed opinion of the country, Journals of Congress, i 307 by resolving that no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen united colonies. Before America legislated for herself, the interdict of the slave trade was impossible. England was inexorable in maintaining the system, which gained new and stronger supporters by its excess. The English slave trade began to attain its great activity after the assiento treaty. From 1680 to 1700, the English took from Africa about three hundred thousand ne- B. Edwards, II. groes, or about fifteen thousand a year. The number, during the continuance of the assiento, may have averaged not far from thirty thousand. Raynal considers the number of negroes exported by all European nations from Africa before 1776, to have been nine millions; and the considerate German historian of the slave trade, Albert Hune, deems his statement too small. A careful analysis of the colored popul