Jeni Kirby

“Blanco and Carballo of Havana, who owned the vessel, had correspondents in the United States: "at Baltimore, Messrs. Peter Harmony and Co., in New York, Robert Barry, Esq." 57 The slaver "Martha" of New York, captured by the "Perry," contained among her papers curious revelations of the guilt of persons in America who were little suspected.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“During the years 1810–1814 she signed treaties relating to the subject with Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden. 13 May 30, 1814, an additional article to the Treaty of Paris, between France and Great Britain, engaged these powers to endeavor to induce the approaching Congress at Vienna "to decree the abolition of the Slave Trade, so that the said Trade shall cease universally, as it shall cease definitively, under any circumstances, on the part of the French Government, in the course of 5 years; and that during the said period no Slave Merchant shall import or sell Slaves, except in the Colonies of the State of which he is a Subject.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“social problem, which required two centuries and a half for a nation of trained European stock and boasted moral fibre to solve.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“a new economic future was opened up to this land, and immediately the whole South began to extend its cotton culture, and more and more to throw its whole energy into this one staple.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870