Defendant (The United States of America) Having absolutely absolved themselves from connection to any of the atrocities, slaughter, carnage, killing, murder, oppression, tyrannies and mayhem against (Negro) Plaintiff(s)

All (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, summary furtherance’s respectful before the “Honourable Justice” Not only have the Defendant (The United States of America) and the confederate “white ruling classes”

Having absolutely absolved themselves from connection to any of the atrocities, slaughter, carnage, killing, murder, oppression, tyrannies and mayhem of Defendant (The United States of America) imposed “slavery codes”, “black codes”, and Jim Crow Laws and the continued system of procuring “white supremacy” herein

                        463.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, summary furtherance’s respectful before the “Honourable Justice” Defendant (The United States of America) and there confederates “white supremacy” ruling classes hallucination, mirage, delusion, extreme denial fantasy

That the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans races and descendants were never wronged, mistreated, maltreated, offended, persecuted, domination over, being force into oppression or victimized

                        464.

And were further created with some type of early “alien life” environmental “Armor safeguard defense shield” of sorts with strong shielding of feeling any type of “mental and physical” disorder by the built in from suffering special screen buffering device

That makes the everyday past and present oppression life style of all (Negro) Plaintiff(s) races endurance herein lasting forever, being fully immune to the full effects of past slavery, black codes laws, “Jim crow Laws era”,

                        465.

And the Defendant (The United States of America) blueprint, fully protected installed system of “white supremacy” still having no direct cause or bearing on actions for the  continue cause to (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans races in the “mental possession” of sever inner physiological experience suffering effect(s).

                        466.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, summary furtherance’s respectful before fully before the “Honourable Justice” Germany, Hitler and the Nazis responsible for the torture and genocide of the “Jews”

The Jews and the Defendant (The United States of America) both say Germany, Hitler, the Nazis and whoever else was involved in the Holocaust, were guilty of every "evil" act they subjected the Jews to. “End of story”.

                        467.

Then before the “Honorable Justice” the Defendant (The United States of America) can be called out before a Jury on the cause of action fully describing massive torture, oppression, civil rights violations

And genocide statehood (among other things) committed against all of the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans herein and their descendants

Gross medical negligent by the Defendant (The United States of America) as slaves living in the United States of America part 4

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, summary furtherance’s respectful before fully before the “Honourable Justice” the Defendant (The United States of America) complicity, knowledge, consent, approval, in collusion with the “white controlling ruling classes”

Racketeering criminal enterprise (RICO) involvement in a illegal host of complex control pattern and practices of supply “oppression”, “control domination”, “repression”, deprivation of normal humane existences to effectuate extreme gross neglects acts and actions

                        456.

 Well into the time frame of 2011 within the Defendant (The United States of America) as submitted, show, portray, represent and depicted in the following Report:

African-Americans fall in equality index

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March 31, 2011|By the CNN Wire Staff”

African-Americans are faring slightly worse relative to their white counterparts than they did last year, according to an index released Thursday by the National Urban League.

The group's 2011 Equality Index stands at 71.5%, compared to a revised index last year of 72.1%, the league said as it released its annual report, called The State of Black America.

An equality index of less than 100% suggests blacks are doing worse relative to whites, while an index greater than 100% suggests blacks are doing better.

The league attributed the 2011 drop to a decline in the economics index, driven by housing and wealth factors, and to a decline in the health index, driven by children's health.

Economics and social justice continue to be the areas in which blacks trail whites the most, with ratings of 56.9% and 58% respectively. Those are followed by health at 75% and education at 78.9%.

Since the Equality Index was introduced in 2005, researchers have found growing equality between blacks and whites in the unemployment rate, the percentage of uninsured, the incarceration rate, and prisoners as a percentage of arrests, the league said.

The index has also charted growing inequality over that period in rates of poverty, home ownership, school enrollment (both "preprimary" and college), and the level of educational attainment (both high school diplomas and bachelor's degrees).

The index of median household income has remained unchanged, the league said.

In 2010, the index measured Hispanics in America for the first time. This year's index finds them faring slightly better than last year compared to their white counterparts, at 76.8% compared to a revised 2010 index of 76.6%, the league said.

It attributed the rise to improvements in health and social justice indices, but said those were offset by declines in economics and education.

In the past year, the league said it has observed growing gaps in the relative status of blacks and whites in the areas of loan access, wealth and children's health.

For Hispanics, there have been growing gaps in the areas of loan access and college enrollment, it said.

The 2011 State of Black America report includes essays from a variety of authors including League President Marc Morial and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.

                        457.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, summary furtherance’s respectful before fully before the “Honourable Justice” the exact moment any (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans “National Health overall improvement” is in extreme well over do prescribed paging all Defendant herein (The United States of America) Doctors

                        458.

 Code Red USDA XXX Px. need’s for mostly all of the entire (Negro) races and such civil adults adjourn in attempting dialogue of congressional order with the special dire need in heath being offer’s as described deem “hot topic” after over (500) plus neglectful sorry for your (poor) medical problems years

                        459.

Upon the legislative majority “White ruling” congressional branch “controlling classes” in deciding all of the Defendant (The United States of America) poor (Negro) Humane future faith surrounding among other things having “absolute Heath fairness” & with a growing future fully faith secure dependent thereof

Being decides @ the voting table in the Defendant (The United States of America) 2010 hostile political climate, and what do you get next “Extreme Extra Loud “White Supremacy Political 100 % Billionaire controlling “Bloodthirsty” Lobbying politician Tyrant

                        460.

Opponent Rich Billionaire “Fat Cat”, extra slow “mouth piece” leading scream(s) of “Medical Oppression” and “tyrannies” against the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans among the other then (Negro) at the bottom of competing “Low Class in being Poor” races........

Add in the extreme spark of a “poison mind” from a Few “fast load clips” imported into a “Glock 19 9MM pistol

“Very quick and fast flying hostile “shell casing later”........ shooting at up to 30 people leaving (6) dead and 13 or more wounded,

                        461.

”Hello” to you “Mr. Tyrannies”

 (No more Poor Negro Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans herein “poor mouthing us for medical health issues” in the 2012 election era)

See ya poor (Negros) suckers asses in another (100) plus good luck for you at voting too in the described defendant herein “New World (America) XXX ($$$) profiteering oppression continue domination “white ruling controlling class” too in 3012 New World  years....Duh”.

gross medical negligent by the Defendant (The United States of America) as slaves living in the United States of America part 3

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, furtherance’s respectful before fully before the “Honourable Justice” it was not until the exact time frame within the Defendant (The United States of America) “Slave Control History 1619-1865 the Freedmen's Bureau,

 A federal agency of the described defendant herein (The United States of America) that was formed during Reconstruction to aid distressed (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans “refugees” of the American Civil War.

                        443.

It became “Fully operational” from June 1865 through December 1868, It became primarily an agency to help the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American Freedmen (freed slaves) descendants in the Defendant (The United States of America) South,

Including missions in issuing rations, of needed “food”, “clothing”, and “medicine(s)” to the (Negro) from the “Unprecedented  Gross Negligent by the Defendant (The United States of America) and there collusion with “White Supremacy Billionaires Industrialist”, Billionaires Agricultures, and Billionaires Infrastructures,

Providing 100% absolute profiteering in repression through mutable racketeering (RICO) Price Fixing labor control schemes of  domination(s) through (among other things) causing direct “depravation”, “oppression”, and complete “famine”

Against the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American herein descendant and being directly the main culprit cause of future (Negro) descendant unhealthy inheritances from such an unhealthy tyranny legacy pass on by the Defendant (The United States of America)

                        444.

 Having complete now grown grossly evolve into an 2011 (American) “eye sore” of “disgusting”, “unpleasant”, “crass”, “vulgar”, “uncouth”, “blatant” criminal actions committed by Defendant (The United States of America) in the past, in collusion with their Confederate “white races” past ruling class described herein

Being the exact directly responsible driving force for the growing “killer epidemic” wrongfully becoming extremely now “apparent” in all mode, legal written devices, all ill gotten gain actions obtain under acts of complete violence’s to gain more through causing among other things extreme inflicted emotional duress,

Full in “assistant” control by acts of whole sale horrors in simple “destructive mass murder”, theft of goods, banking saving, land, farm stock, homes, schools, medicinal hospitals, add destruction of professional (Negro) business services, all surly obtain by threat in force “among special tactic” in unhealthy lynching extortions

                        445.

Led primarily by “The Co-Defendant herein acting “Double Mole Infiltrator Agent” Confederate Secrete Service Southern Specialist “President Andrew Johnson”, being also one in the same “Union Army of the United States of America “Commander in Chief” 

And His fully operational Former Confederate Army, Now the Cloak Secret Service paramilitary organization of the “Klu Klux Klan”

 Infliction of “depravation”, “oppression”, “Tyrannies” and complete “famine”

 Upon “Millions” of innocent now future displacement descendant (Negro) African American Black being in a extra sorry official state of “abandon homeless Negro American Refugees”.

                        446.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, summary furtherance’s respectful before fully before the “Honourable Justice” Seventeen hundred dollars were spent to help establish 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals, and provide homes and food for past (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American slave descendants.

                        447.

This bureau was also designed to help these former slaves in finding “new jobs” and improve, develop and enhance their lives in “education and health” from the “Destructive cause by Acts of Slavery”, and the “Hostile Abductions”

“Brutal”, “heartless”, detail(s) of “harsh gross neglect” and “cruel”, very nasty “malicious mode” in “travel” to arrive at the Defendant (The United States of America) for furtherance’s illegal placement of All (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans descendants races into required slavery  free labor system from 1619-1865 as described and detail above in “Paragraph (421-434) “Life of Slaves”.

                        448.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, summary furtherance’s respectful fully before the “Honourable Justice” the (RICO) “criminal additional conduct” in the disbanded of the “Freedmen agency” by Co-Defendant “President Andrew Johnson” with his paramilitary (KKK) whole sale destruction of all of these resources

 After only (3) whole years the needed operation(s) in “Government” Control Fair Disbursement of issuing “extreme” needed food, water rations, accessing with clothing, medicine and providing actual homes,

                        449.

 Compile, accumulate, and assemble with Co-Defendant “President Andrew Johnson” herein And His fully operational “Former Confederate Army”, now the endless Cloaked “Confederate Secret Service” paramilitary organization namely the “Klu Klux Klan” further action(s) of malicious, spiteful destroying

All recent obtain establish 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals, and the ever so ruthless never ending story of “bombing and burning down “New provided homes” with some (Negro) occupant causality

Thus being still trap inside in this expression of domination in callous acts of forbidding (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American descendant in having desire enjoyment in “peaceful existences” living in “civil order” in said peaceful existences, being all in a unit safe early on in everyday normal life(s) in a well established humane home family environment status,

                        450.

Further herein giving a direct cause of civil action before the “Honorable Justice” being truly entertainment for the Defendant (The United States of America) acts and actions in collusion with the “white ruling class” in the pointless, quite barren deployment of gross neglecting acts and action(s) of malicious, “clear out spiteful” in destroying (Among other things)

All recent obtain extreme needed “Medical Services” in the time frame 1865- 1868 after it was never in existences for the (Negro) Plaintiff continuation in life survival from the time frame of 1619-1865.

                        451

Rendering before the “Honorable Justice” that such cruelty is to be fully examine, scrutinize, scan, investigate from the time frame of 1868- 1968 under the Defendant (The United States of America) having control in their non-reality setting in providing obsolete “Medical Services”

Now being at a state under Defendant (The United States of America) “Jim Crow Laws” era in complete meaningless unhealthy fair objective(s) making another enduring wrongful losses to the (Negro) races in having to commit to a continue legacy of having unhealthy lives in the time frame of the past lost (100) plus years 1868-1968

                        452.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans descendants living under the same conditions of “gross medical neglect” by the Defendant (The United States of America) in the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans descendants every day existences being absolutely wrongfully evacuated from having absolute access to real primarily humane professional medical health,

                        453.

Supply together with the Defendant (The United States of America) “gross neglect” collusion and direct involvement in such hostile domination tactic as described fully in the Amend Complaint and further herein,

To include but not limited all that such fully being also criminally coercion by the Co-Defendant (President Andrew Johnson) herein deliberate destructive detonation of all (Negro) races from having meaningful education in 1865-1868 in this government sponsor control tyranny cycle

                        454.

Of addition (100) years 1868-1968 the Defendant (The United States of America) and there “White Supremacy”, there “Jim Crow Laws, and there paramilitary organization “Klu Klux Klan continue rule controlling time frame in supplying the same faith, objectives and aim

Directed exclusive now at all (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans herein descendants to continue in suffer, oppression, control domination, repression from having any acquired educations for any type of future prosperity placement within the Defendant (The United States of America) up to 1968 “Civil Rights Movement within the Defendant (The United States of America).

gross medical negligent by the Defendant (The United States of America) as slaves living in the United States of America part 2

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” Slavery completely disrupted the notion of the black family because family members could be sold away from one another at any time. Mothers could be torn away from their infants; husbands could be sold away from their wives without warning.

                              431.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” Slavery made blacks into work animals, or beasts of burden, who were expected to work from sun up to sundown without stopping, and who were sometimes actually bred like cattle or horses to make better, stronger slaves.

                        432.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” Slavery also made black men, women and children extremely vulnerable to brutal violence, the likes of rape, murder, torture, lynching’s, tar and feathering, whipping, etc.

                        433.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” Slavery also caused severe emotional and psychological trauma, which resulted in oftentimes in self-hatred

 Because (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans were taught that everything “black” was bad and everything white was good.
      Some (Negro) blacks learned to hate the color of their own skin, their physical features, and the texture of their hair because they were told over and over that they were ugly because they weren't European.
                              434.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” Slavery kept blacks from being educated in large numbers because it was illegal for slaves to learn to read and write.

Slave owners were afraid that “educated slaves” would find a way to organize themselves and begin a revolution that would end slavery.

                        435.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, state, speak out respectful before the “Honourable Justice” From the “inception of slavery” through modern times, those (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American descendants

Who grew old in the Defendant (The United States of America) having had to withstand a variety of psychologically, physically, and socially degrading experiences

Resulting factor from the (400) plus ongoing controlling years of “conquering domination” by the Defendant (The United States of America),

 In collusion with “White Supremacy” controlling interest in all state through imposed political oppression for a profiteering economy at the expense of all the (Negro) “Blood Heritage” race relations within the defendant (The United States of America).

                        436.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans herein declare, state, speak out respectful before the “Honourable Justice” Among the determinants in negligence contribution in “health factor” is of the treatment of elderly (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American and their descendants

In the social history of the Defendant (The United States of America), economic factors have had a significant bearing.

For example, the economic interests of “hostile slave owners” during the Defendant (The United States of America) “antebellum period” of enforcement of slavery in (America) made the situation of elderly (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans

Disabled slaves especially, shaky, tenuous and bad for “business investments”.

                              437.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” after the described Defendant (The United States of America) claims in the eliminate of 400 years of captivity, oppression, the Defendant fail to equate that  

The "Black Code" being the next oppressive domination method that white slave masters used to keep blacks from having unity.

                        438.

 Things like taking children from (Negro) mothers at birth, beatings, overworking, not allowing (Negro) blacks to converse in large groups, not allowing (Negro) blacks to read, marry, have a personal opinion, and the list goes on and on.

Defendant (The United States of America) controlling “Whites Supremacy” fully set in continue dehumanized the (Negro) race from centuries past beyond 1619 throughout the “Jim Crow Laws” era of 1968.

                        439.

 (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans suffering is still post traumatic, those mentalities won't leave back up

And current (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American current inflicted race problems like high crime, extreme poverty, single family homes, , massive wrongful abortion, drugs infestation, merge and mixed in with “health issues” adult race-based health disparities in diseases like hypertension, diabetes, stroke, and coronary heart disease.

                        440.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” All Slaves Descendants herein had extreme poor nutritional status during all stages of life because of the extreme gross neglected by the Defendant (The United States of America) in collusion with “White Supremacy” wanting gross neglected,

 In real provisions of enough food supply for all enforce slaves, thus being the direct cause of  all of the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans “inadequate dietary intake” extreme poor health legacy”, accompanied by high energetic costs of physical work and infectious diseases.

                        441.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare, assert, furtherance’s respectful before fully before the “Honourable Justice” Unsanitary conditions, inadequate nutrition and unrelenting hard labor made slaves highly susceptible to disease.

Illnesses were generally not treated adequately by the Defendant (The United States of America) and their partners “White Supremacy” races”,

Slaves were often forced to work even when sick or else.

gross medical negligent by the Defendant (The United States of America) as slaves living in the United States of America…

Negro Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) herein show before the “Honorable Justice continues cause of action for gross medical negligent by the Defendant (The United States of America) as slaves living in the United States of America…

Degrading Tasks

Slaves were not allowed to better themselves or to strive for their own goals. For many of them, their days consisted of slaughtering animals, digging ditches, cutting wood and bringing it back to the house, planting and harvesting crops, and performing any repairs that needed to be done on the plantation or home.

                        424.

Women often performed tasks such as cooking and sewing. Furthermore, they frequently had to take care of the children of the house, as opposed to looking after and raising their own children.

Perhaps these tasks do not seem dreadful at first glance. Many present day farmers engage in the same labors.

 However, imagine the “Honor himself of” having working in a hot field in the south from sunrise to sunset without being allowed to stop for a drink of water or a bathroom break when needed.

From that perspective, the situation is awful and totally dehumanizing.

Furthermore, those who worked in the home were forever under the eyes of their masters, and had absolutely no privacy.

                        425.

Food

Slaves absolutely did not receive proper nutrition, particularly for the physically straining tasks that they worked.

Since they worked all day and into the night without receiving wholesome and well-rounded meals, their immune systems suffered. They also became part of a vicious cycle.

Without the proper nutrients and energy, people cannot work under such intense conditions. However, if they did not follow their master's orders exactly, they were whipped and beaten.

Slaves who worked inside the home sometimes received better meals since they had more access to food. Still, they were operating on someone else's clock.

Even if they were eating with the family, they were most likely attending to one of the family member's needs.

                              426.

Health

Closely associated with their inadequate diets were problems with their health. The high temperatures and rates of humidity were dangerous for everyone living in the south,

 but particularly the blacks because they performed back-breaking labor in the conditions. When a slave got sick, he or she was not treated immediately, if at all.

                        427.

On rice plantations, slaves were forced to stand in water in the burning sun for hours at a time, and malaria was often the consequence. Children suffered immensely, and child mortality rates on rice plantations were around 66%.

Sexual health was also a serious problem for women. Slave masters often raped the slave woman. No protection was used, and they did not have access to medical care.

 Therefore, in addition to the emotional scars, the slave women were at high risks for contracting diseases from these slave masters.

                        428.

The Sale of Slaves

When slaves misbehaved, or when the owners were going through a time of economic hardship, the slaves were threatened with being sold. Being sold was horrible for them because they were often separated from their families.

Slave masters allegedly tried to keep mothers and their children together; however, that practice was not always put into play.

Once a slave was sold, they lost much of their hope that they would ever see any of their family ever again.

The psychological impact was immense because of the loss of family, and because masters used the threat of sale as a tool of manipulation.

                         429.

(Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans declare fully before the “Honourable Justice” while the “slave trade” was still operating, “Defendant the United States of America and “White Supremacy” economists races found it was better to work slaves to death and buy new ones than treat them humanely.

 After that, when the supply of new slaves dried up, (yes), some of the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African American herein descendants would be in a better position to be lucky enough to get medical treatment.

“Gross Medical negligence” by Defendant United States of America Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829 "Interception at Sea"

(Negro) Plaintiff “himself” herein supply his assert respectful before the “Honorable Justice” having continue declaratory judgment being made entry into the records of this cause of action as outline in the Amend Complaint,

In regards to accusations, contention as charge in all allegations made against Former Vice President Dick Cheney,

                        419.

filed herein supporting Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) position exhibit (C) request for admission, production of documents, and interrogatories,

                        420.

Requiring Defendant (The United States of America) simple “admitting or deny” any such accusations, and contention having occurred as charge in all allegations made against Former Vice President Dick Cheney,

In the Amend Complaint giving the “Honorable Court” solid weight and Plaintiff further position in light of all of the Defendant (The United States of America) accusations, and own contention in their reply to such any and all claims made in support of or fully negative response thereof.

                        421.

And to include but not limited as fully claim, charge out, line in full assertion all contentions, allegations made against Sarah Palin in regards to all incident being the “ill host” contribution factor that arose to a fatal result in “wrongful lost of lives” and “serious” body injury to (Gifford) in Arizona.

                        420.

All (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans herein declare, assert, and request respectful before the “Honorable Justice” having continue “declaratory judgment” being made entry into the records of this cause of action for

Defendant (The United States of America) “gross medical Negligence” against the peace will, civil rights and dignity of (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans descendants as outline in the Amend Complaint, and herein fully to wit:

                        421.

All (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans herein descendants were transported under inhumane conditions as depicted herein for the “Honorable Justice” to fully understand in full accounts the

 “Gross Medical negligence” and complete “extreme mental harm” on part of the Defendant (The United States of America) herein imposed, exact, wreak and inflicted long before the (Negro) Plaintiff and Plaintiff(s) Black African Americans descendants herein making arrival into the “New World” being a forever inheriting legacy.

                        422.

 Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829

 Interception at Sea

Conditions aboard the slave ships were wretched. Men, women and children crammed into every available space, denied adequate room, food or breathing space.

The stench was appalling - the atmosphere inhumane to say the least. The Reverend Robert Walsh served aboard one of the ships assigned to intercept the slavers off the African coast. On the morning of May 22, 1829, a suspected slaver was sighted and the naval vessel gave chase.

The next day, a favorable wind allowed the interceptor to gain on its quarry and approach close enough to fire two shots across her bow. The slaver heaved to and an armed party from the interceptor scrambled aboard her. We join Reverend Walsh's account as he boards the slave ship:

"The first object that struck us was an enormous gun, turning on a swivel, on deck - the constant appendage of a pirate; and the next were large kettles for cooking, on the bows - the usual apparatus of a slaver. Our boat was now hoisted out, and I went on board with the officers. When we mounted her decks we found her full of slaves. She was called the Feloz, commanded by Captain Jose' Barbosa, bound to Bahia.

She was a very broad-decked ship, with a mainmast, schooner rigged, and behind her foremast was that large, formidable gun, which turned on a broad circle of iron, on deck, and which enabled her to act as a pirate if her slaving speculation failed. She had taken in, on the coast of Africa, 336 males and 226 females, making in all 562, and had been out seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard 55. The slaves were all inclosed under grated hatchways between decks.

The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and [were] stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day. As they belonged to and were shipped on account of different individuals, they were all branded like sheep with the owner's marks of different forms. These were impressed under their breasts or on their arms, and, as the mate informed me with perfect indifference 'burnt with the red-hot iron.'

 Over the hatchway stood a ferocious-looking fellow with a scourge of many twisted thongs in his hand, who was the slave driver of the ship, and whenever he heard the slightest noise below, he shook it over them and seemed eager to exercise it.

 I was quite pleased to take this hateful badge out of his hand, and I have kept it ever since as a horrid memorial of reality, should I ever be disposed to forget the scene I witnessed.

As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them, their dark and melancholy visages brightened up. They perceived some- thing of sympathy and kindness in our looks which they had not been accustomed to, and, feeling instinctively that we were friends, they immediately began to shout and clap their hands. One or two had picked up a few Portuguese words, and cried out, "Viva! Viva!"

The women were particularly excited. They all held up their arms, and when we bent down and shook hands with them, they could not contain their delight; they endeavored to scramble up on their knees, stretching up to kiss our hands, and we understood that they knew we were come to liberate them. Some, however, hung down their heads in apparently hopeless dejection; some were greatly emaciated, and some, particularly children, seemed dying.

But the circumstance which struck us most forcibly was how it was possible for such a number of human beings to exist, packed up and wedged together as tight as they could cram, in low cells three feet high, the greater part of which, except that immediately under the grated hatchways, was shut out from light or air, and this when the thermometer, exposed to the open sky, was standing in the shade, on our deck, at 89'.

The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18 and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls, into the second the men and boys: 226 fellow creatures were thus thrust into one space 288 feet square and 336 into another space 800 feet square, giving to the whole an average Of 23 inches and to each of the women not more than 13 inches. We also found manacles and fetters of different kinds, but it appears that they had all been taken off before we boarded.

The heat of these horrid places was so great and the odor so offensive that it was quite impossible to enter them, even had there been room. They were measured as above when the slaves had left them. The officers insisted that the poor suffering creatures should be admitted on deck to get air and water. This was opposed by the mate of the slaver, who, from a feeling that they deserved it, declared they would murder them all. The officers, however, persisted, and the poor beings were all turned up together.

It is impossible to conceive the effect of this eruption - 517 fellow creatures of all ages and sexes, some children, some adults, some old men and women, all in a state of total nudity, scrambling out together to taste the luxury of a little fresh air and water.

They came swarming up like bees from the aperture of a hive till the whole deck was crowded to suffocation front stem to stern, so that it was impossible to imagine where they could all have come from or how they could have been stowed away. On looking into the places where they had been crammed,

There were found some children next the sides of the ship, in the places most remote from light and air; they were lying nearly in a torpid state after the rest had turned out. The little creatures seemed indifferent as to life or death, and when they were carried on deck, many of them could not stand.

After enjoying for a short time the unusual luxury of air, some water was brought; it was then that the extent of their sufferings was exposed in a fearful manner. They all rushed like maniacs towards it.

 No entreaties or threats or blows could restrain them; they shrieked and struggled and fought with one another for a drop of this precious liquid, as if they grew rabid at the sight of it.

It was not surprising that they should have endured much sickness and loss of life in their short passage. They had sailed from the coast of Africa on the 7th of May and had been out but seventeen days, and they had thrown overboard no less than fifty-five, who had died of dysentery and other complaints in that space of time, though they had left the coast in good health.

Indeed, many of the survivors were seen lying about the decks in the last stage of emaciation and in a state of filth and misery not to be looked at. Even-handed justice had visited the effects of this unholy traffic on the crew who were engaged in it. Eight or nine had died, and at that moment six were in hammocks on board, in different stages of fever.

This mortality did not arise from want of medicine. There was a large stock ostentatiously displayed in the cabin, with a manuscript book containing directions as to the quantities; but the only medical man on board to prescribe it was a black, who was as ignorant as his patients.

While expressing my horror at what I saw and exclaiming against the state of this vessel for conveying human beings, I was informed by my friends, who had passed so long a time on the coast of Africa and visited so many ships, that this was one of the best they had seen.

The height sometimes between decks was only eighteen inches, so that the unfortunate beings could not turn round or even on their sides, the elevation being less than the breadth of their shoulders; and here they are usually chained to the decks by the neck and legs. In such a place the sense of misery and suffocation is so great that the Negroes, like the English in the Black Hole at Calcutta, are driven to a frenzy.

 They had on one occasion taken a slave vessel in the river Bonny; the slaves were stowed in the narrow space between decks and chained together. They heard a horrible din and tumult among them and could not imagine from what cause it proceeded. They opened the hatches and turned them up on deck.

They were manacled together in twos and threes. Their horror may be well conceived when they found a number of them in different stages of suffocation; many of them were foaming at the mouth and in the last agonies-many were dead.

A living man was sometimes dragged up, and his companion was a dead body; sometimes of the three attached to the same chain, one was dying and another dead.

The tumult they had heard was the frenzy of those suffocating wretches in the last stage of fury and desperation, struggling to extricate themselves. When they were all dragged up, nineteen were irrecoverably dead.

Many destroyed one another in the hopes of procuring room to breathe; men strangled those next them, and women drove nails into each other's brains.

Many unfortunate creatures on other occasions took the first opportunity of “leaping overboard” and getting rid, in this way, of an “intolerable life."

References:
   Walsh, Robert, Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 (1831).