12 13. THE FRIEND OF AFRICA; BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE EXTINCTION OF THE SLAVE TRADE, AND FOR THE CIVILIZATION OF AFRICA. VOL. I. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN W. PARKER, 445, WEST STRAND; AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. M.DCCC.XLI. TO THE FIRST VOLUME. Abu Bekr, Dr. Madden's Reward for, 64. Narrative, 151 Abyssinia, 28, 88, 106, 120, 168, 187, 203; Slave-hunting Acorn, H.M.S., Capture of the Amelia, 43 Do. Do. Do. Commanded by Captain John Adams, not by Lieut. Hankey, 144 Address on behalf of Africa, 1 Africa, Address on behalf of, 1; and the East, Proceed- ings of Church Missionary Society, 172; and the West 54 African Institution, 26 African Slave Trade and its Remedy: Preface to German Albert, His Royal Highness Prince, Present to Com- Allen's, Captain W., Picturesque Views on the Niger, 92 Anderson, W. W., Esq., Letters from, 36, 52, 63 Ansah, Prince John, Letter to the Rev. Thomas Pyne, Bradford Auxiliary, 208 Brazil, Slavery and Slave Dealing, 189 Cape Coast Castle; Mr. Swanzy's Plantation, 214: Cape De Verd Islands, 132 Carnarvon Auxiliary, 175 Cases of Slavers, 174, 191, 207 Ceely, Mr., Letter on Vaccination, 25 Channing, Dr., Review of "Emancipation," 91 Cheltenham Auxiliary, 127 Childe, the Rev. C. F., 159 Christian Missions the Hope of Africa, 179 Chronometers presented by His Royal Highness Prince Church Missionary Society: Proceedings for Africa and Hoffman, the Rev. W., Statement relative to Basle Mis- Humboldt, Baron A. von, Letter from, 31; Consent to be Hunting Slaves in Abyssinia, 90 Intelligence from Western Africa, 138 Isambert, M., Letter on Cession of Fernando Po, 150 Jamaica, Advancing Prosperity of, 108; a NegroSpeaker Jamieson, Mr., 33 Jeremie, His Excellency Sir John, Departure for Sierra Jeans Maria Slaver, Capture of, 63; Unprecedented Josephine Slaver, Capture of the, 174 Native Missionary, a, 32 Niger Expedition: Progress and Proceedings, 9, 24, 41, Niger, the, its Branches and Tributaries, 147, 163, 180, Niger Views, by Captain W. Allen, Notice of, 92 Observations, Magnetic, in Africa, 55 Palmas, Cape, Meteorological Observations at, 208 Plymouth, Public Meeting at, 110; Speech of Captain Poncha, La, Portuguese Pirate and Slaver, Capture of, 48 Prevoyante, La, Capture of La Poncha, Slaver, by, 48 Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society, for Prospectus of the African Civilization Society, 6 Pyne, the Rev. Thomas, Letter relative to Ashanti Princes, Quantamissah, Prince William, Letter from, 146, 201 Reid, Dr., on the Ventilation of the Niger Vessels, 43, 65 Revival of the Slave Trade in the Bight of Benin, 42 Ritter, Professor Carl, Preface to the German Transla- 220 Royal Presents to the Commanders of the Niger, Expe- Sabine, Mr., Letter on Magnetic Observations, 55 Sermon on board H.M.S.V. Albert, by the Rev. Theo- Sierra Leone: Letter, from Dr. Fergusson, 31; Departure Slave Barracoons, Destruction of, by Captain Denman, Slave Hunting in Abyssinia, 90 Slave Trade, Suppression of, in Cuba, 113, 161: Slavery: Abolition of it in Tunis, 127; and the Internal Smith, Sir Culling Eardly, Birthday Fete, 191 Subscribers to the "Friend of Africa," Notice to, 48, 64 Timneh Mission of the Church Missionary Society, 188 Trinidad; Soldiers of the 1st West India Regiment, 166 Tunis, Abolition of Slavery in, 127 Tuscany, the Grand Duke of; consent to become an 110 United States: Slavery and the Slave Trade in the, 110; Vaccination of the Africans, 24, 42 Vegetable Butter: Letter from Mrs. Lee, 166; from Mrs. Ventilation of the Niger Vessels, 43, 55, 65 Visit of His Royal Highness Prince Albert to the Niger Vogel, Dr.: Letter from Baron Humboldt respecting Waddell, the Rev. H. M.; Letter on Africa and the Wanderer; Captain Denman's Destruction of the Slave No. 1.] BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE EXTINCTION OF THE LONDON, 1st JANUARY, 1841. CONTENTS. [2d. ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF AFRICA. THE past history of Africa presents a mysterious page in the book of Providence, and constitutes one of the most mournful and humiliating passages in the annals of mankind. With the exception of a few favoured spots, the seats of either ancient or modern civilization, nearly the whole of this vast continent, so far as we are acquainted with it, has been from time immemorial immersed in moral darkness, adapted only to exhibit scenes of the deepest human degradation and woe. Successive ages have borne the elements of social improvement to almost every other considerable portion of the globe, but Africa, unhappy Africa, the cradle of ancient art and science, and the depository of ancient grandeur, has made no onward progress: and although upon her northern and eastern frontiers, a by-gone civilization still lingers, yet her central, western, and southern districts appear to have ever remained in almost primeval barbarism, a monument of the ingratitude of those nations who first borrowed from Africa the rudiments of their own advancement. In contemplating the desolation and misery of modern Africa, it were unjust to forget that Europe is herself a debtor to the ancient population of that now benighted continent. Egypt first taught the use of letters: first unveiled the mysteries of science: set the most successful examples of agriculture and commerce; and by imperishable memorials in architecture and design, "the works of Memphian kings," awakened the genius and the wonder of all succeeding generations. Nor can Christianity itself deny its obligations to a continent which gave birth to the author of the earliest of the sacred oracles; which produced the Septuagint; listened to the voice of Evangelists; and in the primitive ages of the Church, gloried in the possession of many of its most illustrious martyrs, apologists, and fathers. It were well if the imputation of ingratitude and neglect could alone be urged against civilized and Christian Europe. It were well if the horrors of Africa and the disgrace of Europe were all comprised in such a complaint. But Europe is charged with far other offences than these. She stands convicted, alas! of an avarice mingled with a cruelty so B |