castle-slaves

Updated: May 9, 2025

The implications, furnished by the act, in favor of the toleration of slavery, in the English settlements, on the coast of Africa, are the following: The third section of the act refers to another act of parliament "divesting the Royal African Company of their charter, forts, castles and military stores, canoe-men and castle-slaves;" and section thirty-first requires that such "officers of his majesty's navy," as shall be appointed for the purpose, "shall inspect and examine the state and condition of the forts and settlements on the coast of Africa, in the possession of the Royal African Company, and of the number of soldiers therein, and also the state and condition of the military stores, castles, slaves, canoes and other vessels and things, belonging to the said company, and necessary for the use and defence of the said forts and settlements, and shall with all possible despatch report how they find the same."

Lysander Spooner - The Unconstitutionality of Slavery