Samboe; or, The African Boy

by Mary Ann Hedge

The purchaser marks, with a hot iron, the breasts of the men, and the bosoms of the women, to ascertain they are his property.

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(Note M.)

Instruments are used to force the jaw open, somewhat similar to those used with unhappy maniacs, upon refusal of sustenance. The anecdote related is a fact of frequent occurrence, during the execution of this compulsive mode of sustaining life, practised with the desponding slaves.

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(Note N.)

See Clarkson’s description of the Slave-ship he visited, as related in his history of the trade.

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(Note O.)

That this is no fancied picture of misery, is abundantly proved by the official reports of the African Society, 1822.