Morning Star

White Women exchanged for Negro Slaves.

"Thus doth even handed justice commend the poisoned chalice to our lips."

The Caraccas Gazette contains the following:

"Traffic in White Slaves!—The depravity of slave traders is every day causing greater horrors. It is now two years since they have been committing a new sort of crime. They seduce young women at New York, to whom they hold out the most brilliant prospects in order to induce them to embark for Havana, when they are taken to the coast of Africa, and there sold to the chief who will give the greatest number of slaves for them. One alone has been known to sell for a full cargo."

The Havana correspondent of the London Anti-Slavery Reporter, writes thus:

"I have just been informed, on the most undoubted authority, that the captain of the brig Bolador has taken with him to the coast of Africa, a very handsome young American woman, (who was seen on board at the time of his sailing, and previously thereto, by many persons resident in this city,) whom he intends to offer instead of money, in exchange for slaves. It is said that the same thing has been done before, by others, and that from 50 to 500 Africans are readily given for a white woman, whose worth is determined by her youth and beauty. In behalf of humanity, I would be happy if I could conscientiously declare that I doubt the truth of this assertion but so great is the degree of depravity, to which the habitual committal of crime has reduced the slave trader, that I believe deeds equally revolting to human nature, are of frequent occurrence with them. In the case of the young woman on board the Bolador, the only thing doubtful, is, whether this poor creature, thus condemned to a life of infamy and slavery, was a consenting party to her own misery."