d the depths of education, accumulate
wealth, and then turn his attention to the civilization of Africa. The
United States will yet establish a line of steamships between this
country and the Dark Continent. Touching at the Grain Coast, the Ivory
Coast, and the Gold Coast, America will carry the African
missionaries, Bibles, papers, improved machinery, instead of rum and
chains. And Africa, in return, will send America indigo, palm-oil,
ivory, gold, diamonds, costly wood, and her richest treasures, instead
of slaves. Tribes will be converted to Christianity; cities will rise,
states will be founded; geography and science will enrich and enlarge
their discoveries; and a telegraph cable binding the heart of Africa
to the ear of the civilized world, every throb of joy or sorrow will
pulsate again in millions of souls. In the interpretation of _History_
the plans of God must be discerned, "_For a thousand years in Thy
sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the
night_."

FOOTNOTES:

[139] From the year 1500 to 1860 the number of slaves imported from
Africa were as follows:

Number of Negroes imported Total.
into America per annum.

From 1500 to 1525 500 12,500
From 1525 to 1550 5,000 125,000
From 1550 to 1600 15,000 750,000
From 1600 to 1650 20,000 1,000,000
From 1650 to 1700 35,000 1,750,000
From 1700 to 1750 60,000 3,000,000
From 1750 to 1800 80,000 4,000,000
From 1800 to 1850 65,000 3,250,000
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Total, 350 years 13,887,500
From 1850 to 1860, increase for decade 749,931
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Total importation of Negro slaves into America
during a period of 360 years 14,637,431
or about 15,000,000 in round numbers.

The above figures are taken from Mr. Dunbar's Mexican Papers. The
process by which he reaches his conclusions and secures his figures is
rather remarkable.

[140] This includes the officers, most of whom were white men.

[141] Thus far the Negro has not gone, as an author, beyond mere
narration. But we may soon expect