An exposition of the African slave trade, from the year 1840, to 1850, inclusive. Prepared from official documents, and published by direction of the representatives of the Religious society of friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

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lately on the south side of the island, principally in the neighbourhood of Santiago de Cuba." * " " I fear that another
report is true, that the Spanish government has granted the
Slave traders permission to introduce 40,000 slaves into the
island, and that the Captain General has been instructed to
connive at the introduction, allowing him to take the payment
of three doubloons, or about ~10 per head for so doing. It is
said that this is with the consent of the British government also;
which I only repeat to show how openly the trade is carried
on, because people think it could not be so without British permission also. A large number of Bozals, are offered about
now in the markets, and a respectable American settler has
had the warranty given him, that a lot of twenty-five he was
buying, should have permits from the Captain General, to be
taken wherever they might be wanted, without hindrance
or loss."-.Appendix to Lord's Report, 1850,
We now proceed to give the following extracts, from the
papers published by direction of the Senate, just alluded to.
JMr. Tod to Mr. Clayton.
" LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
Rio de Janeiro, January 8, 1850.
SIR: "Fifty thousand Africans are annually imported into
Brazil, and sold as slaves for life. I believe one-half of this
number are introduced through the facilities directly and indirectly afforded by the American flag. This belief is founded
upon my familiarity with the subject, growing out of a close
attention to it since my arrivalin Rio de Janeiro. The declaration is a humiliating one, and nothing but a desire to awaken
action on the part of the legislative power of our country could
induce me thus to make it. As my predecessors had already
done, I have from time to time called the attention of our government to the necessity of enacting a stringent law, having in
view the entire withdrawal of our vessels and citizens from
this illegal commerce; and after so much has been already
written upon the subject, it may be deemed a work of superero