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Slave Trade In Africa [Caption title].
Washington, DC: U. S. Govenment Printing Office, 1890.
Price: $125.00
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House of Representative Document No. 3134 September 22, 1890. 23 pp.;. 1 vols. 8vo. Self-wrappers, stapled. A fine copy.
Item #15244
This document prints the entire text of the International agreements reached at the Brussells Conference on the Slave Trade in Africa. As of 1890 there were 20,000 slaves in Egypt, and near equal amounts in the other North African countries. Most of these slaves were brought from Western and Eastern Sudan and the Congo. The estimates [given in this report] of slaves traded in one year were placed at 80,000. The survival rate of these unfortunates was about one in ten. If one is to err on the side of conservatism, and cut the figure in half, the result is still a staggering loss of 30, 000 lives a year. Signatories to Brussells Conferemce include The United States, England, and all the major European powers.
