[8]. Letter to the Colonization Herald—October, 1853.
[9]. Gammel’s History of the American Baptist Missions.
[10]. Gammel’s History of the American Baptist Missions.
[11]. Ibid.
[12]. Baptist Missionary Magazine, March, 1854.
[13]. Mr. Bowen was in Abbeokuta, when the king of Dahomey attempted its destruction, as detailed hereafter.
[14]. Report of Bishop Payne, June 6, 1853.
[15]. Report of Bishop Payne, June 6, 1853.
[16]. The funds for this purpose were supplied as follows: Charles McMicken, Esq., of Cincinnati, $5000; Solomon Sturges, Esq., of Putnam, Ohio, $1000; and Samuel Gurney, Esq., of London, England, $5000.
[17]. This system, in its moral bearings upon the Islands, is little better than the old African Slave trade. The disparity in the sexes is fully as great under the apprenticeship system, as it was during the prevalence of the slave trade, and it must be equally as demoralizing. Take, as an example, a few imports of apprentices from India and China, for the supply of English planters. The cargoes of five vessels, were composed of 1,433 males, 257 females, and 84 children.