calabars

Updated: May 11, 2025

In vessels that sail from Bonny, Benin, and the Calabars, whence a large proportion of slaves are brought, this mortality is so much increased by various causes, that eighty-six in a hundred die yearly. He adds, "It is a destruction, which if general but for ten years, would depopulate the world, and extinguish the human race."

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans