ter, Henry, _Travels in Brazil_, second edition, in two
volumes, vol. II, London, 1817, pp. 247-259.

[17] Christie, pp. 69-76.

[18] Koster, p. 123.

[19] _Ibid._, pp. 247-259.

[20] Koster, pp. 247-259.

[21] _Encyclopedia Americana_, 30 volumes, vol. 27, New York and
Chicago, 1919, pp. 395-396.

[22] _Americana_, pp. 395-396.

[23] Koster, pp. 229-231.

[24] Koster, pp. 246-247.

[25] Southey, vol. III, pp. 781-783, states that in Pernambuco masters
were opposed to selling their slaves.

[26] Koster, pp. 246-247.

[27] Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, _A Short History of the American
Negro_, N. Y., 1917, pp. 20-21.

[28] DuBois, p. 197.

[29] _Americana_, pp. 395-396.

[30] Koster, pp. 238-239.

[31] _Ibid._

[32] Koster, pp. 236-238.

[33] Luccock, John, _Notes on Rio de Janeiro and the Southern Part of
Brazil_, London, 1820, p. 591.

[34] Koster, pp. 229-231.

[35] Christie, p. 578.

[36] Luccock, p. 591.

[37] Koster, pp. 233-235.

[38] _Ibid._

[39] Keller, pp. 156-157.

[40] Blake, p. 808.

[41] Brawley, pp. 20-21.

[42] Henderson, pp. 72-78.

[43] Brawley, p. 90.

[44] DuBois, p. 196

[45] _Ibid._

[46] Brawley, p. 90.

[47] Dawson, p. 375.

[48] Henderson, pp. 339-340.

[49] Henderson, p. 340.

[50] _Ibid._, p. 340.

[51] Brawley, p. 22.

[52] Koster, ch. XVIII

THE ORIGINS OF ABOLITION IN SANTO DOMINGO

Columbus discovered this island December 6, 1492. It is of the Great
Antilles of the Caribbean Sea, and lies between Cuba and Puerto Rico.
He called the island Hispaniola, but Hayti, or Haiti, was its original
name. It seems beyond the power of language to exaggerate its
beauties, its productiveness, the loveliness of its climate, and its
suitability as an abode for man.

At the time of its discovery the island was divided into five states
or cacicats. Thus divided it was easily conquered by the Spaniards who
subjected the native Indians to slavery. Soon after the discovery,
Spain began establishing a plantation colony as opposed to a farm
colony. The work fell upon the subjected Indians, who vanished from
the island, in about 50 years, leaving the problem of labor to the
overseers and the colonists. To meet this need, the Spaniards repaired
this loss by bringing in Africans, supplied by the Portuguese, who at
that time occupied themselves with the slave trade. Hierrera, who
claimed to be an authority, said that one Negro would do more work
than f