. Christian herald and signs of our times . er to place the present 266,000slaves on Zanzibar and Pemba, thesacrifice of human lives at the places ofcapture in the interior and on the roadmust have been, according to the lowestestimate, over 1,000,000 souls. To supplythe local demand of the two islands, 24,-000 are sacrificed year after year, and are claimed by the export to Arabiaand Persia. The great loss of life on the roadis such that a slave who cost in the in-terior a few yards of calico is worth at thecoast from $50 to 5100. As the plantationsof the Arabs are all mortgaged to
. Christian herald and signs of our times . er to place the present 266,000slaves on Zanzibar and Pemba, thesacrifice of human lives at the places ofcapture in the interior and on the roadmust have been, according to the lowestestimate, over 1,000,000 souls. To supplythe local demand of the two islands, 24,-000 are sacrificed year after year, and are claimed by the export to Arabiaand Persia. The great loss of life on the roadis such that a slave who cost in the in-terior a few yards of calico is worth at thecoast from $50 to 5100. As the plantationsof the Arabs are all mortgaged to British-Indian financiers, these are the real slaveowners hiding themselves behind theArabs, who cultivate the plantations forthem, because British law will not allowthem to hold slaves. Even the slave-raid-ing expeditions to the interior were finan-ced by these British subjects. It was awell known Indian who started that arch-slaver Tippoo Tib in business. The rateof interest which the Indians get from themortgages ranges from20 to 30per. AFRICAN SLAVES ON A COCOA PLANTATION AT MT. MACACO. ST. THOME. called free-labor consists of slaves whoare hired by British subjects, and have topay their non-British proprietors half oftheir earnings. These free laborers mustfind enough work to satisfy their proprie-tors, or they are punished. The mortalityamong the slaves is appalling. It is esti-mated that thirty per cent, of the caravanporters who are taken to the interior diefrom exhaustion, ill-treatment and othercauses. One explorer went into the interiorwith 450 men. and he came back withonly 100. A slave is said to live onan average only eleven years. Prolific asnegroes generally are. the slaves have veryfew children. This is partly attributed tothe ill-treatment of very young girls Arabs and others. Owingtothis greatmortality, it is computed that slaveshave to be annually imported in order tosupply the deficiency. Most of these slavesimported by contraband are now brou
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