 There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them with fresh....  The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy - Pàgina 150per Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1840 - 582 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 600 pàgines
...usual to take out casks filled with sea-water as ballast; and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and re-fill them with fresh. On...but salt water. All the slaves on board perished.' — Walsh, vol. ii., pp. 474—484. At the time of this seizure, Brazil was precluded from the slave-trade... | |
 | William Whitaker Shreeve - 1817 - 128 pàgines
...to take out casks filled with sea water as ballast, and, when the slaves are received on board, they start the casks and refill them with fresh. On one...found, to their horror, that they were filled with salt water. All the slaves on board perished. " We could judge of the extent of their sufferings from... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 592 pàgines
...usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them with fresh. On...could judge of the extent of their sufferings from the afflicting sight we now saw. When the poor creatures were ordered down again, several of them came,... | |
 | 1830 - 614 pàgines
...usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them with fresh. On...Bahia neglected to change the contents of the casks, an 1 on the mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled with nothing but salt water.... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pàgines
...received on board, to start the casks, end refill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahía neglected to change the contents of the casks; and...their horror, that they were filled with nothing but saltwater. All the slaves on board perished! We could judge of the extent of their sufferings from... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 616 pàgines
...when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks and refill them with fresh. On one oecasion, a ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents...mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filied w,th nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished! We could judge of the extent... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 pàgines
...casks and refill Ihem with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahía neelecled lo change the conlenls of the casks, and on the mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled with nothing bul salt waler. All the slaves on board perished ! We could judge of ihe extent of their sufferings... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pàgines
...usual lo take out casks filled with sea-water as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks and refill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahía neglected to change the contents of the casks, and on Uie mid-passage found, to iheir horror,... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1833 - 262 pàgines
...if they grew rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing1 from which slaves in the mid-passage suffer so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to...ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents of their casks, and on the mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled with nothing but... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 624 pàgines
...usual to take out casks filled with sea-water as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks and refill them with fresh. On...mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled w,th nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished ! We could judge of the extent of their... | |
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