slave-jockey

Updated: July 10, 2026

Since the time when Clarkson, Wilberforce and Fox made the horrors of the slave-trade understood, the slave-captain, or slave-jockey, is spontaneously and almost universally regarded with dislike and horror. Even in the slaveholding states it is deemed disreputable to associate with a professed slave-trader, though few perhaps would think it any harm to bargain with him.

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