Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 83

Again, one of theirs more first methods to earn a maintenance it was in the
fishing, and that it directly conducted curiously enough to the work in, enslaved.
To sell the great quantities of their fish they dragged above from the Banks or
nearer house, foreign markets owe the necessities is found. England and the European
countries took but few of this kind of provision, and besides England,
France, Holland, and Portugal they had theirs really fishing fleets on the Banks.
The principal markets for the New Englanders were then the Islands of India Of the west,
the Canaries and Madeira. There the people had accustomed to a diet of fish
and, indeed you/he/she was encouraged in him by the frequent fastdays of the Roman,
Catholic church of which the most greater part was devoted members. A trip to the
Canaries with fish were commonly prolonged to the coast of the west of Africa,
where enslaved you/they were bought with rum. For this motive the vase would proceed the
Western Indies where the slaves would be sold, a great part of the purchase
being of price taken in the molasses that, in his/her turn, you/he/she was distilled in rum
to house, to be used for buying enslaved more--for in this little traffic of
acquisition value was paid for the unlucky captives. Ardent rum, usually
corrupted and never poisonous, it was all the African heads
received for their human flocks of bovine livestock. For him they sold wives and
children, bloody war and sort and sold their captives, it abducted and he/she sold
their human loot.

Nothing in the history of our people so surprisingly shows the progress of
man toward taller ideals, toward a clearer sense of the duties of humanity
and the correct relationship of the strong one toward the weak, that the changed
the feeling respect to the work of slave. In his/her more benign form the thought
with that to-day of traffic fills us with horror. The histories of his worse
phases almost seem unbelievable, and we ask us us that men of American blood
you/he/she would be been able to be such absolute beasts. But two centuries ago the first one the men