[The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) CHAPTER III 21/159
Captain Wilson and Captain Hills, of His Majesty's navy, and Mr.Dalrymple of the land service, had concurred in stating, that in the country contiguous to the river Senegal, when slave-ships arrived there, armed parties were regularly sent out in the evening, who scoured the country, and brought in their prey.
The wretched victims were to be seen in the morning bound back to back in the huts on shore, whence they were conveyed, tied hand and foot, to the slave-ships.
The design of these ravages was obvious, because, when the Slave-trade was stopped, they ceased.
Mr.Kiernan spoke of the constant depredations by the Moors to procure slaves.
Mr.Wadstrom confirmed them.
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