Such is the story of the Rape of Ethiopia—a sordid, pitiful, cruel tale. Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sung; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead; for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God.
FOOTNOTES:
[70] Cf. Helps: Spanish Conquest, IV, 401.
[71] Helps, op. cit., I, 219-220.
[72] Helps, op. cit., II, 18-19.
[73] Helps, op. cit., III, 211-212.
[74] Theal: History and Ethnography of South Africa before 1795, I, 476.
[75] Ingram: History of Slavery, p. 152.