Horribles <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>crautés</sic> <corr>cruautés</corr> </choice> qui s’exercent à bord, des Capitaines qui <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>chatient</orig> <reg>châtient</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">jusqu’</supplied>au sang les jeunes filles qui se refusent de coucher avec eux, on les fait <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />dancer dans les chaînes pour se donner du mouvement. <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a1c846ba-3c27-4ef3-8846-ba3c27bef307" corresp="#a02097b1-2d00-4ab8-a097-b12d000ab8b9" type="editorialNote">On se sert d’un <lb />fouet de 9 traits <subst> <del rendition="#s"> que[?] </del> <add place="superlinear"> pour </add> </subst> les faire dancer et chanter, on les couvre <lb /> <hi rendition="#mMM">de sang, au bord du Ruby on leur fait chanter<supplied cert="high">:</supplied> Messe, messe<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <lb />Macqerida<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <choice> <abbr>c. a d.</abbr> <expan>c’est-à-dire</expan> </choice> que l’on vit gaiement parmi les blancs. Evidence</hi> <lb />of Mr. <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012737">James Arnold</persName>.</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a02097b1-2d00-4ab8-a097-b12d000ab8b9" corresp="#a1c846ba-3c27-4ef3-8846-ba3c27bef307" type="editorial"> Zur Unterstützung der Abolitionistenbewegung wurden Dokumente publiziert, darunter ein Zeugnis von <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012737">James Arnold</persName> (Arzt auf dem Sklavereischiff Ruby), der 1789 dem „Parliamentary Committee on the Abolition of trade“ berichtete: <quote>It was his [the captain's] general practice on receipt of a woman slave – especially a young one – to send for her to come to his cabin so that he might lie with her […] We often at sea, in the evenings, would let the slaves come up into the sun to air themselves, and make them jump and dance for an hour or two […] to preserve them in health […] the women were driven in one among another all the while singing or saying words that had been taught them: – Messe, messe, mackerida,' that is: – Good living or messing well among the white men,' thereby praising us for letting them live so well.</quote> Zitiert nach <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/CFI8PTN7">Rice 2003</bibl>, 58–59. Vgl. auch <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/HWI3EAX7">Humboldt 1826</bibl>, I, 310. </note>