Identifier: timehrijournalo361919roya (find matches)
Title: Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (Georgetown, Guyana
Subjects: Agriculture Anthropology Zoology
Publisher: (S.l.) : Argosy Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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African Immigrants After Freedom. 75 The crush aboard was terrible. The negroes had not coffin-room.They squatted each between the others knees sometimes, to savestowage. The legal slave-trade in the latter days had its Regulating Bill.The slave-smuggler knew no law. He was a law to himself. Before, themortality on the Middle Passage averaged about 8 per cent; it rose now to25 per cent, or more. If winds were light or the slaver encountered badweather or disease broke out, half the slaves never reached America. The physical and mental condition of those landed was pitiable.Most of them were mere wrecks,—shadows of men. They were skeletons.It took them a year at least to pick up sufficiently for work in the field. As business, nevertheless, slave-smuggling was immensely profitable.Nothing was more so. The value of a slave in Africa—in osnaburg, redcoral, salt and tobacco, muskets, rum, &c.—was about £3 or £4. He wascheaper than in the old time. The trade was illegal. The de

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