slave-hunting

He had the Convention of 1877, which called slave-hunting “robbery with murder.”

Three Empires on the Nile

Over time, though, the demand for vast numbers of slaves in the Americas transformed slave-hunting into a major West African industry.

The Price of Human Cargo

A drought had visited the land after the slave-hunting panic swept over it.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

The devastation caused by slave-hunting and famine lay all around.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

During our subsequent detention at Shupanga, he proceeded as far up the Shire as the Upper Cataracts, and saw the mere remnants of that dense population, which we at first had found living in peace and plenty, but which was now scattered and destroyed by famine and slave-hunting.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

The depressing effect which the slave-hunting scourge has upon the native mind, though little to be wondered at, is sad, very sad to witness.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

Belchoir, another marauder, had been checked, but was still allowed to make war, as they term slave-hunting.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

The bearing of the Manganja at this time was very independent; a striking contrast to the cringing attitude they afterwards assumed, when the cruel scourge of slave-hunting passed over their country.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

On passing Malango, near the uppermost cataract, not a soul was to be seen; but, as we rested opposite a beautiful tree-covered island, the merry voices of children at play fell on our ears — the parents had fled thither for protection from the slave-hunting Ajawa, still urged on by the occasional visits of the

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

He had been in the habit of sending out armed parties on slave-hunting forays among the helpless tribes to the north-east, and carrying down the kidnapped victims in chains to Quillimane, where they were sold by his brother-inlaw Cruz Coimbra, and shipped as “Free emigrants” to the French island of Bourbon.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries