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Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Christian sociology
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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Zanzibar, ent fate. My own face flushed with anger as I stood helplessly by and saw thosesweet, dark-skinned, woolly-headed Soudanese sold into slavery. Our hearts have ached as we have heard from time to time from the lips ofslaves of the indescribable horrors of the journey across desert plains, cramped withpain, parched with thirst, and suffocated in panniers, their food a handful of maize.Again, we have sickened at the sight of murdered corpses, left by the wayside tothe vulture and the burning rays of the African sun, and we have prayed, perhaps asnever before, to the God of justice to stop these cruel practices.— The Anti-SlaveryReporter, December, 1895, pp. 267-268. 1 Ibid., May-June, 1894, p. 181 ; January-May, 1895, p. 63. 2 Ibid., July-August, 1894, p. 207. Cf. also Bonsai, Morocco as It Is,pp. 328-334. 3 The Anti-Slavery Reporter, January-February, 1894, p. 9; January-May, 1895,p. 10. 4 Letter of Lord Cromer, quoted in The Anti-Slavery Reporter, March-April,1896, p. 118.
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Rescued Slaves on a British Man-of-War. Slavery at Zanzibar—A Child Victim. Some Victims of the East Coast Slave Trade. THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 141 have hardly any effective restraint put upon the traffic. The report ofMr. Donald Mackenzie, already referred to as special Commissioner ofthe British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, givesan elaborate account of his visit of investiga- a recent report of the ~ slave-traffic on the East tion, in 1895, along the coast and to the opposite Coast, shores of Arabia. The evidence that he presentsof a considerable traffic is convincing. The main recruiting-groundis Danakli and Aussa, and from the ports of Massowah, Mader, Eid,Margebelah, and Roheitah the slaves are shipped across to the FursanIslands, which are a hotbed of slavery, and to Hodeidah and otherports. In some instances they are transported around to the easterncoast of Arabia. His report is strange reading for the nineteenth cen-tury, and gives some revolting de

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