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FORCED CANNIBALISM (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) British Government Papers. Copy of the Report of Hall Pringle and Alexander Campbell, Esquires, Associate Justices of the Peace, relative to Certain Atrocities of Slave Traders, laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies . . . at Lucea (sic Lucia). 18 pages, tall folio, stitched. Original self-wrappers. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed, 1839
The blood-chilling transcript of the testimony of a number of slaves from the Portuguese slave-ship Arrogante, captured by the British warship Snake. According to these slaves from Angola--most of them between 12 and 14 years of age--at least one of the men was murdered and his flesh cooked and fed to the captives. When siezed, the Arrogante had on board 332 of her original cargo of 470 slaves. According to an article on slave ships and slaving in the New York Times of December 21, 1902, the Arrogante, once named the Urraca, had carried the largest number of slave cargoes of any ship of the trade. The Arrogante was auctioned off by the British in 1839, and purchased by a Cuban slaver, who renamed the vessel the Iberia. She made one voyage, and was captured and sunk by the British off the West Coast of Africa.
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