FROM Negros in Negroland, a compilation by Hinton Rowan Helper […]

It is plain, from all history, that two abominable practices, – the one the eating of men, the other of sacrificing them to the devil, -prevailed all over Africa. The India trade, as we have seen in very early ages, first established the buying and selling of slaves; since that time, the eating of men, or sacrificing them, has so greatly decreased on the eastern side of the peninsula, that now we scarcely hear of an instance of either of these that can be properly vouched.

On the western part, towards the Atlantic Ocean, where the sale of slaves began a considerable time later, after the discovery of America and the West Indies, both of these horrid practices are general.