So contractors of every origin pursue this execrable traffic on a large scale.

They thus carry a supplement of population to those races, which are dying out and will disappear some day, because they do not regenerate themselves by labor.

These slaves, as in the time of Bonaparte, often become soldiers.

With certain nations of the upper Niger, they compose the half of the armies of the African chiefs.

Under these circumstances, their fate is not sensibly inferior to that of free men.