1838 June 9. William Cullen to Buxton offering him any information on the slave trade he could provide. …
1838; Gale Group;
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E 17 pp 103-10 1838 June 9. William Cullen to Buxton offering him any information on the slave trade he could provide. He reports that while he lived in Rio de Janeiro there had always been a number of small vessels fitted for smuggling slaves in the harbour, that the slaves had been obtained from the coast between Rio Senegal and Cape Negro and that the trade from Rio de Congo to Benguela and from the Mozambique coast was very great. He gives details of the places where they were landed on the Brazilian Coast and mentions that he knew some Englishmen who had been involved. He refuses to commit himself as to numbers lost during the middle passage. Referring to his previous letter to Lord Glenelg he claims that the approximation he had given him for importations into Brazil had now been exceeded because of increase in the trade. He asserts that the Mixed Commission in Rio de Janeiro had never been of the least use, citing its ineffectiveness in the case of a mulatto servant from Spain who had been sold by the family she served when she reached Brazil. He claims that the Africans were in a better state before the abolition ofslavery and that they had been much worse treated since. He suggests that naval forces should be stationed off the coast of Africa to prevent the escape of slavers, the trade declared piracy and a death penalty imposed or hard labour for life in exile, and the rescued negroes to be taken toEngland or any other country where slavery did not exist to be taught trades, ultimately to be restored to their own countries. To act in concert with the naval vessels commissioners should be placed in the African ports to check slaves being taken out. Finally he writes that he would like to have a talk with Andrew Johnston when he should be in the neighbourhood. .
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