Obstacles in Africa by Rev. T. W. Woodside

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 15, 1899

Obstacles in Africa

By Rev. T. W. Woodside

Obstacles in Africa.—There are two classes of obstacles: First, from the natives themselves—the apathy, they are so content with what they have and are. Second, obstacles from without, from immoral white men, rum, and slavery. The rum is the vilest kind of stuff, made of potatoes and doctored with sulphuric acid. Then there is slavery, not only among the natives, but also among the white men; Portuguese, Dutch, and Englishmen buy slaves. This is not only domestic, but there is also slavery on the high seas. Slaves are shipped upon the high seas. There were one hundred slaves on the steamer on which we came home. They, of course, are not called slaves, but “contract laborers.” They have contracts made out by a notary public, but they are fraudulently obtained.—Rev. T. W. Woodside.