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She longed for the sorrowful and the afflicted, she would go down to the forgotten and the oppressed, and made herself the companion of the Doctor's secret walks and explorings among the poor victims of the slave-ships, and entered with zeal as teacher among his African catechumens.
My grandmother so they tell me used to sing it in Carolina, in the thirties, accompanying herself on a harp, if you please: "Oh, she loved a bold dragoon, With his broadsword, saddle, bridle." It was in Charleston, I remembered, and the slave-ships used to discharge there in those days.
He happily escaped, although his little estate, situated at Mardyke Enclosure, some short distance from the town, was greatly injured, and some six or eight people were crushed to death by the falling trees and ruins of houses. "Before us visions come Of slave-ships on Virginia's coast, Of mothers in their childless home, Like Rachel, sorrowing o'er the lost; The slave-gang scourged upon its way.
He saw the horrible traffic in human beings, the slave-ships lying at the wharves of the town, the sellers and buyers of men and women and children thronging the market-place.
In 1807, England abolished the slave-trade in her colonies, and France followed her example in 1814. The two powerful nations exchanged a treaty on this subject a treaty confirmed by Napoleon during the Hundred Days. However, that was as yet only a purely theoretical declaration. The slave-ships did not cease to cross the seas, and to dispose of their "ebony cargoes" in colonial ports.
There was one circumstance of peculiar importance, but quite new to me, which I collected from the information which Mr. Falconbridge had given me. This was, that many of the seamen, who left the slave-ships in the West Indies, were in such a weak, ulcerated, and otherwise diseased state, that they perished there.
Indeed, this point was soon settled beyond dispute; for the behaviour of the strange vessel, and her peculiar rig which was that of a cutter combined with the fact of so small a craft sailing boldly towards a barque so large as the Pandora, all went to prove that she was either a war-cruiser in search of slave-ships, or a pirate, in either case, a vessel much better manned and armed than the Pandora.
Falconbridge, however, dared not rescue him, lest, in the defenceless state of his own town, retaliation might be made upon him. At another time a young woman, living half a mile off, was sold, without any criminal charge, to one of the slave-ships. She was well acquainted with the agent's wife, and had been with her only the day before. Her cries were heard; but it was impossible to relieve her.
It will be remembered that up to this time slave-ships had sailed up the Thames all unmolested, were accustomed to fit out for their voyages, and, having disposed of their cargoes, to return. A vessel of this description had arrived at the port of London. The subject of the traffic having become invested with interest, a portion of the members of the House paid a visit to the ill-starred craft.
Author confers with the inhabitants of Bridgewater relative to a petition to parliament in behalf of the abolition returns to Bristol discovers a scandalous mode of procuring seamen for the Slave-trade and of paying them makes a comparative view of their loss in this and in other trades procures imports and exports examines the construction and admeasurement of Slave-ships of the Fly and Neptune Difficulty of procuring evidence Case of Gardiner of the Pilgrim of Arnold of the Ruby some particulars of the latter in his former voyages.
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