Produced by Andrea Ball, Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. THE SLAVE TRADE, Domestic and Foreign: WHY IT EXISTS, AND HOW IT MAY BE EXTINGUISHED. BY H. C. CAREY, AUTHOR OF "PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY," "THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE," ETC. ETC. PREFACE. The subject discussed in the following pages is one of great importance, and especially so to the people of this country. The views presented for consideration differ widely from those generally entertained, both as regards the cause of evil and the mode of cure; but it does not follow necessarily that they are not correct,--as the reader may readily satisfy himself by reflecting upon the fact, that there is scarcely an opinion he now holds, that has not, and at no very distant period, been deemed quite as heretical as any here advanced. In reflecting upon them, and upon the facts by which they are supported, he is requested to bear in mind that the latter are, with very few exceptions, drawn from writers holding views directly opposed to those of the author of this volume; and not therefore to be suspected of any exaggeration of the injurious effects of the system here treated as leading to slavery, or the beneficial ones resulting from that here described as tending to establish perfect and universal freedom of thought, speech, action, and trade. Philadelphia, March, 1853. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE WIDE EXTENT OF SLAVERY CHAPTER II. OF SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH COLONIES CHAPTER III. OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER IV. OF EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH COLONIES CHAPTER V. HOW MAN PASSES FROM POVERTY AND SLAVERY TOWARD WEALTH AND FREEDOM CHAPTER VI. HOW WEALTH TENDS TO INCREASE CHAPTER VII. HOW LABOUR ACQUIRES VALUE AND MAN BECOMES FREE CHAPTER VIII. HOW MAN PASSES FROM WEALTH AND FREEDOM TOWARD POVERTY AND SLAVERY CHAPTER IX. HOW SLAVERY GREW, AND HOW IT IS NOW MAINTAINED, IN THE WEST INDIES CHAPTER X. HOW SLAVERY GREW AND IS MAINTAINED IN THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER XI. HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN PORTUGAL AND TURKEY CHAPTER XII. HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN INDIA CHAPTER XIII. HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND CHAPTER XIV. HOW SLAVERY GROWS IN ENGLAND CHAPTER XV. HOW CAN SLAVERY BE EXTINGUISHED? CHAPTER XVI. HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN NORTHERN GERMANY CHAPTER XVII. HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN RUSSIA CHAPTER XVIII. HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN DENMARK CHAPTER XIX. HOW FREEDOM GROWS IN SPAIN AND BELGIUM CHAPTER XX. OF THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER XXI. OF THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND THE SLAVE TRADE, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. CHAPTER I. THE WIDE EXTENT OF SLAVERY.