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women carrying ivory and children, "The double burden waa
alnont too much and still they otrugrled weakly on$
knowing too well that when they showed signs of fatigue,
not the oluver's ivory but the living child would be torn
from them and thrown aside to dio.. Still we could not
help shuddering an in the darkness we hoard the growl of the
hyena, along the track and renlioed only too fully the
reason whys'
(1)
Though the A, S. S. were in theory attached. to. a non-
violent policy# they could not help hoping for the
expansion of British influcnce. They tended to rely on
locitimate commerce to tupercede slave trading1 but as
V. 7. Cameron declared in 1888, : '.., you need oufficient
physical force to prevent the low class of slaver setting
himself up in opposition to you. '' Slavery was
ti
immoral but it wan' also unprofitable to British trade,
and obstructed the moulding of African society on the model
of Victorian Britain. As Cameron put it $ '! levee do not do
one half or one quarter of the work that a free man will
do $ and so lone as such an immoral thing an slavery in
(1) Quoted in Jamca Stev neon, OP cit;
(2) Journal of the Sociftly cam, tat March 1889, V"L.
C n"Slavery in its relation to trade in tropical
Africa"