and render the transition from servitude to liberty safe and salutary.
The African can be clothed with the habits and desires of a freeman by a simple act of immediate and unconditional liberation!
In the palmy days of her African slave trade, Great Britain transferred above seven hundred thousand negroes to this side of the Atlantic, which is believed to be the most extraordinary example in the history of mankind of so considerable a removal from one part of the world to another.
In 1807, having turned philanthropist, she put a peremptory stop to the slave trade; notwithstanding which, the slave trade became doubled in extent and quadrupled in horrors!--Whilst the agricultural produce of the British West Indies rapidly declined, those colonies of other nations which still retained slave labor received an impetus of prosperity which is almost incredible.
Puerto Rico, which twelve years before only exported cattle and coffee and imported sugar, exported, in a short period afte
ticipated the Continental Congress of 1774 in resolving to discontinue the slave trade.
On the 1st of March, 1807, Congress passed an act against importations of Africans into the United States after January 1st, 1808. An act in Great Britain in 1807 also made the slave trade unlawful.
Denmark made a similar prohibition as to her colonies, to take effect after 1804.
The Congress of Vienna, in 1815, pronounced for the abolition of the trade.
France abolished it in 1807.
Spain, to take effec1807.
Spain, to take effect after 1820.
Portugal abolished it in 1818.
The slave trade continued in despite of the abolition.
The average number of slaves exported from the coast of Africa averaged 85,000 per annum from 1798 to 1805; and from 1835 to 1840 there was a total of 135,810; in 1846 and 1847, it was 84,000 per annum.
Between 1840 and 1847, 249,800 were taken to Brazil and 52,027 into the Spanish colonies.
Slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1780.
In New Jersey, it was provisionally abolished in 1
