 ... night, accomplished, without difficulty or resistance, in one hour, the annihilation of the whole tribe ; — every adult, man and woman, was murdered — every hut fired ! Very young children, generally, shared the fate of their parents ; the boys...  The African Repository - Page 831845Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...hour, the annihi' lation of the tribe ; every adult man and woman being mur'dered — every hut fired! Very young children generally ' shared the fate of...parents ; the boys and girls alone ' were reserved to supply the slaver.' He thus describes a part of the territory of Liberia, when first purchased by him... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society, Thomas Cilavan Brown - African Americans - 1834 - 254 pages
...a small agricultural and trading people, of most inoffensive character. His warriors were skilfully distributed to the different hamlets, and making a...British Navy till he attained the rank of boatswain, and afterwards gradually rose among his own people by his superior intelligence and force of character.... | |
 | Ralph Randolph Gurley - African Americans - 1835 - 566 pages
...exception of a few towns) ' of the whole tribe. Every adult man and woman was mur' dered; every hut fired; very young children generally ' shared the fate of...girls alone ' were reserved to pay the Frenchman." He thus concludes this letter: — "God Almighty has surely ' given us His powerful aid and effectual... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 324 pages
...exception of a few towns) of the whole tribe. Every adult man and woman was murdered; every hut was fired; very young children generally shared the fate of their...and girls alone were reserved to pay the Frenchman." — Such are the horrors which surround the African in his native country. The natives of Africa, instead... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 318 pages
...exception of a few towns) of the. whole tribe. Every adult man and woman was murdered; every hut was fired; very young children generally shared the fate of their...The boys and girls alone were reserved to pay the Frenchman."—Such are the horrors which surround the African in his native country. The natives of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Africa - 1839 - 270 pages
...annihilation of the whole tribe ; — every adult, man and woman, was murdered — every hut fired ! Very young children, generally, shared the fate of...and girls alone were reserved to pay the Frenchman." * The Commissioners at Sierra Leone, in a despatch of April 10, 1825, speaking of a great increase... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...annihilation of the whole tribe ; — every adult, man and woman, was murdered — every hut fired ! Very young children, generally, shared the fate of...and girls alone were reserved to pay the Frenchman.' ' — pp. 57, 58. There is reason to believe that, in these wars, as a general rule, ' the captives... | |
 | 1839 - 946 pages
...annihilation of the whole tribe ; — every adult, man and woman, was murdered — every hut fired ! Very young children, generally, shared the fate of...and girls alone were reserved to pay the Frenchman/ " — Buxton on the Slave Trade, p. 50—58. Nor are these horrors confined to the savage chiefs of... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...the annihilation of the whole tribe ;—every adult, man and woman, was murdered—every hut fired! Very young children, generally, shared the fate of...the boys and girls alone were reserved to pay the Frenchman.''—pp. 57, 58. There is reason to believe that, in these wars, as a general rule, ' the... | |
 | Ralph Randolph Gurley - African Americans - 1839 - 562 pages
...of the whole tribe. Every adult man and woman was mur' dered; every hut fired; very young cliildren generally ' shared the fate of their parents. The...girls alone ' were reserved to pay the Frenchman." He thus concludes this letter: — "God Almighty has surely ' given us His powerful aid and effectual... | |
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