Note 194 — Chapter XIX
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“The Negro Trade,” by Sir George Stephen: the offensive tone of this pamphlet arises from its having been written for a “Review.” Long before its day, Messrs. Buxton and MacQueen declared that “it is by African hands and African exertions, chiefly, that the evil [slave trade] must be destroyed.” I know only one part of the outer West African coast which is at present perfectly free from the export, and that is the Bight of Biafra, which certainly was cleared by English hands and English exertions.