Identifier: historyofslavery5491blak (find matches)
Title: The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome ; the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Blake, William O
Subjects: Slavery Slave trade Slavery Antislavery movements Antislavery movements
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : H. Miller
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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s to propose theemployment of negroes in their stead, or whether the suggestion came fromsome other person, does not distinctly appear; but it is certain, that what theSpaniards spared the Indians, they inflicted with double rigor upon the negroes.Laborers must be had, and the negroes were the kind of laborers that wouldsuit. As early as 1503, a few negroes had been carried across the Atlantic ;and it was found that not only could each of these negroes do as much workas four Indians, but that, while the Indians were fast becoming extinct, the egroes were thriving and propagating wonderfully. The plain inference was,that they should import negroes as fast as possible; and this was accordinglydone. In the year 1510, says the old Spanish historian Herrera, the kingof Spain ordered fifty slaves to be sent to Hispaniola to work in the goldmines, the natives being looked upon as a weak people, and unfit for labor And this was but a beginning; for, notwithstanding the remonstrances of Car- *
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EARLY HISTORY. f.)~ dinal Xiraenes, ship-load after ship-load of negroes was carried to the WestIndies. We find Charles V. giving one of his Flemish favorites an exclusiveright of shipping 4000 negroes to the new world—a monoply which thatfavorite sold to some Genoese merchants for 25,000 ducats. These merchantsorganized the traffic ; many more than 4000 negroes were required to do thework; and though at first the negroes were exorbitantly dear, they multiplier)so fast, and were imported in such quantities, that at last there was a ne«rofor every Spaniard in the colonies ; and in whatever new direction the Spaniards advanced in their career of conquest, negroes went along with them. The following extract from the Spanish historian already quoted will shownot only that the negroes were very numerous, but that sometimes also theyproved refractory, and endeavored to get the upper hand of their masters: There was so great a number of blacks in the governments of Santa Martaand Venezuel

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