Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — SLAUGHTER OF SLAVES. [ARTICLE]

SLAUGHTER OF SLAVES.

Two Hundred Killed in a Day by an African Prince. Finding the Slave Market Closed, the Captives Are Fut to Death by Hundreds, A letter just received from Sierra Leon says that the vigilant suppression of the slave trade along the coast and the consequent inability of the warlike races to disposeof the captives at a profit has caused a revival in the most terrible form of ths slaughter and bloodshed which formerly made every chief town in the Interior a Golgotha. Coomassie, it Is said, has agalg witnessed the killing of as many as twf hundred victims in one day, and the death drum is heard in the streets even more frequently than the British Ashantee expedition, when it was hoped that such things were put to an end forever. The savage Wangarus recently made a raid into Dagqmba, completely devastating the villages and carrying over 2,000 captivs. They were unable to get rid of the prisoners as slaves and held a sacraficial feast, which lasted three days, in which every captive perished, not even children being spared. It is universally admitted in the settlements that the approaching extinction of the slave trade in western Africa is making war far more merciless than ft used to be.