"The Portuguese provinces are governed by men whom I hold to be animated with as sincere a hatred against the slave trade as any English or American philanthropist has shown. It would really be one of the riskiest undertakings for any slave trader to attempt to revive the slave trade on Portuguese territory today, either by sea or by land. It cannot be denied that there is some traffic on the frontiers of the colonies of Portugal by Portuguese subjects, when they succeed in escaping the surveillance of the authorities; however, it is essential to make a clear distinction between the African Portuguese and the European Portuguese."
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International Conference of Brussels: 18 November 1889-2 July 1890, protocols and final act / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Page 41. Finally, Mr. Stanley, the well-known traveller, on May 11, 1878, after crossing Africa, wrote from London to the secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society in these terms:
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