After cruising off those parts of the coast most usually resorted to by slavers until the commencement of the rainy season, these vessels returned to the United States for supplies, and have since been dispatched on a similar service.
And even if all the States had separately passed laws prohibiting the importation of slaves, these laws would have failed of effect for want of a naval force to capture the slavers and to guard the coast.
A look-out was still kept for slavers which, having hugged the Madagascar shore, might be steering for the Gulf of Persia.
That man-of-war schooner, for instance, is much more likely to help the slavers to escape than to assist us in catching them, and is very likely often employed in bringing off a cargo of ebony from the shore.
Mr Matson has not been asleep; there comes the boat from the island, and if the slavers are not sharp about getting under way, she'll have the whole of them; but one or two are pretty sure to be caught.
The sea was tolerably calm on the bar, and as it appeared a likely place for slavers to ship their cargoes, Adair resolved to run in and explore it thoroughly.
If we'd had Dick Needham on board, he'd have told us how they managed with slavers captured on the West Coast," observed Archie.
Jack began to feel vexed at his want of success, but Hamed assured him that only the first part of the trade had begun to move northward, and that the slavers would soon be coming, fast and thick.
The commander intends running down the coast, and then despatching all the boats which can be spared to look into the creeks and harbours, and other hiding-places in which any slavers are likely to take shelter.
American ships suspected of being slavers were visited and searched.
Slavers were fitted out in New York, and the city authorities did not prevent their sailing.
We know it-- Tennyson slaversyour hand; Argyll fawns at your knee!
The American slavers had to spend more in housing and keeping any fixed number of their slaves in serviceable condition than Capitalism spends in wages.
We must free theslavers from their irons," said the lieutenant.
What would the Admiral say to us then, if it were found that the slavers had driven us out by a little smoke?
By dint of soap and much scrubbing he had succeeded in rubbing off the composition that the slavers had painted him with, and he therefore now looked a thorough white man.
Steam-vessels in those days were not common off the coast of Africa, and slavers or pirates had to be captured by sailing vessels alone.
But they had news to tell, great news, for a child of Miguel had broken away from the slavers and had hidden in the mountains, and at last had found her way back to Palomitas.
To hell it is, if it's the slavers again after women," said Kit.
It was the first reference she had made to the slavers since they had entered the cañon, though she knew that each pile of nuggets was part of the redemption money for those exiles of whom she did not speak.
I do the work, but the great share is to you, that it may buy back your mother from the slavers of the south.
We have no wish to meet with any ships of war, but from mere pirates and slavers we are not, I beg to assure you, in any great danger.
We will not sail again to that den of pirates and slavers and the iniquitous of all the nations of the world, Havana.
The slavers had placed a slow match in connection with the magazine, and had blown in one instant of time that entire and beautiful fabric into ten thousand atoms!
During the last seven years the "patriarchal institution" has become extinct, and the old slavers who have at times touched at the island, have left it empty-handed.
The consequence of the unfitness of our ships for this particular service, is, that of the number of slavers that we descry in these seas, the captures make but a small proportion.
The affair gave the slavers an opportunity of exulting over our failure, and their own good fortune; which, I think, was to be regretted.
Not a soul," said Gordon, "to be seen for miles; all driven off by the slavers in years past.
I have not got a cent; those cursed slavers have cleared me out, and she has no friend.
We must clear out of this place at once, or we shall have the escaped slavers and the crews of the dhows down upon us.
The slavershad awakened, they had found the dead man in their midst mysteriously slain by an invisible foe.
The slavers looked at Leonard with awe not unmixed with admiration.
Presently the slavers came on with a yell, carrying long planks, by the help of which they hoped to cross the dike.
Again Soa sprang backwards, and the roar of the gun was answered by the screams of the slavers as the shrapnel ploughed through them.
He gave the slavers to the sword; he doomed their captain to death.
This is the form of that leaflet distributed, which had no small part in starting the crusade against the White Slavers in Chicago.
It's wonderful how carefully these slavers everywhere protect themselves against "burglars.
She may be man-of-war schooner, but she very like some slavers I have seen.
If I become a sailor, I would rather be engaged in hunting slavers and liberating the poor blacks than in fighting Frenchmen, or any other enemies.
Those poor men fell victims to the treachery not so much of the blacks, as of some of the white slavers who had but a short time before curried off a number of their kindred and friends.
Just as the first flushes of the rising sun tinged the sea to windward with streaks of reddish gold, the decks of the slavers bustled with activity.
And, with rage in their villains' hearts, the slavers pursued them in vain; for before the boats could be brought round to the passage the canoes were nearly across the lagoon.
The slavers then advanced close up to the nearest boat, and pouring a volley from their deadly trabucos into her, killed or wounded nearly all her crew.
In mostslavers the lower deck is devoted entirely to the slaves and the provisions, the men sleeping under a topgallant-forecastle, or sometimes on the open deck, and the captain and mates under the poop deck.
Just then a light rustling noise was heard, and a figure was seen advancing close up to where the slavers were crouching down, ready for the command of their officer to fire.
The contest was kept up for some time; but reduced in strength as the crews of the boats were, they were at last obliged to retreat, while the slavers returned with their prisoners to the schooner.
There the fight with the slavers had evidently been fiercest, for around it lay the charred and mutilated remains of many human bodies.
They scowled as they replied that the same had been said by the slavers who had attacked their village; from which remark it would seem that Yoosoof was not quite the originator of that device to throw the natives off their guard.
It was only old memories that had been awakened, for no slavers had passed through their country for some time past, though rumours of an attack on a not very distant tribe had recently reached and greatly alarmed them.
To this Harold replied briefly that he was an Englishman, who hated slavers and slavery, but he said nothing more at that time, as he intended to have a palaver and explanation with the freed captives after their meal was over.
It was evident from the manner of the slavers that they did not now fear discovery, because they talked loudly as they pushed off and rowed away.
The slavers had taken them by surprise during the night, set their huts on fire, captured their women and children, and slaughtered all the men, excepting those who sought and found safety in flight.
Who knows but the slavers may be at our huts while we lie idly here?
Slavers run in, take their cargoes of human flesh and blood, and push off.
Not a few of the reports about American slavers spring from this jealousy of trade.
Now, were the cruisers to anchor at the mouths of these two rivers, the slavers would be prevented from putting to sea with their cargoes, and the trade at those places be inevitably stopped.
Few of them hesitate to avow their readiness to furnish slavers with goods, equally with any other purchasers, if they can make their profit, and get their pay.
That cargoes of imported slaves have recently been landed in the United States is not denied:--that vessels fitted out as slavers have recently been seized in American ports, we know upon official authority.
In most of our cities of any considerable size there are numerous restaurants and other places where these slavers congregate for the purpose of drinking, smoking and discussing their affairs.
This done, a coasting cruise for slavers followed in which four prizes were made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slavers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
