[Illustration: IN THE REAR OF A CARAVAN] SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA BY HENRY M. STANLEY ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1893 Harper’s “Black and White” Series. Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each. SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA. By Henry M. Stanley. THE RIVALS. By François Coppée. THE JAPANESE BRIDE. By Naomi Tamura. WHITTIER: NOTES OF HIS LIFE AND OF HIS FRIENDSHIPS. By Annie Fields. GILES COREY, YEOMAN. By Mary E. Wilkins. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. An Address. By George William Curtis. COFFEE AND REPARTEE. By John Kendrick Bangs. SEEN FROM THE SADDLE. By Isa Carrington Cabell. A FAMILY CANOE TRIP. By Florence Watters Snedeker. A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN. By William Dean Howells. A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. IN THE VESTIBULE LIMITED. By Brander Matthews. THE ALBANY DEPOT. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. _For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers, postage prepaid, on receipt of price._ Copyright, 1893, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE REAR OF A CARAVAN _Frontispiece_ CAPTURING SLAVES _Facing p._ 28 A SLAVE MARKET ” 40 A SLAVER ” 50 BOY SLAVE ” 62 AN ARAB ” 74 SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA “It is desirable that accurate information on the enormities of the slave trade should be spread at home and abroad, and that to slave-holding states all evidence proving the superior advantages of free labor should be freely supplied,” was a sentiment uttered by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at the jubilee meeting of the Antislavery Society. His vast and influential audience cordially responded to it. It seems to me that the same sentiment should also be published for the benefit of all those in America or England who are or may become interested in the welfare and progress of the negro races, and of their advancement towards civilization. With that view, I shall endeavor in this article to lay before you the present actual condition of Africa in respect to slavery, the slave trade, and slave-raiding, and the efforts which are being made to remedy their destructive effects, and to extirpate the causes, by opening the continent to the influences of legitimate trade. The maritime exploration of the African coasts by the Portuguese navigators in the fifteenth century was the direct cause of the first inception of the traffic in negroes, and first started the no less inhuman system of slave-holding which this century has seen expiated by one of the most sanguinary wars of which we have any full record.