“It is evident that both white and black slaves were employed as servants; they attended on the guests when invited to the house of their master; and, from their being in the families of priests as well as of the military chiefs, we may infer that they were purchased with money, and that the right of possessing slaves was not confined to those who had taken them in war.  The traffic in slaves was tolerated by the Egyptians; and it is reasonable to suppose that many persons were engaged ... in bringing them to Egypt for public sale, independent of those who were sent as part of the tribute, and who were probably, at first, the property of the monarch; nor did any difficulty occur to the Ishmaelites in the purchase of Joseph from his brethren, nor in his subsequent sale to Potiphar on arriving in Egypt.”

So we find that slavery was not, at this time, confined to any particular race of people.  This Negro princess was as liable to purchase white as black slaves; and doubtless some were taken in successful wars with other nations, while others were purchased as servants.

But we have further evidence to offer in favor of the antiquity of the Negro.  In Japan, and in many other parts of the East, there are to be found stupendous and magnificent temples, that are hoary with age.  It is almost impossible to determine the antiquity of some of them, in which the idols are exact representations of woolly-haired Negroes, although the inhabitants of those countries to-day have straight hair.  Among the Japanese, black is considered a color of good omen.  In the temples of Siam we find the idols fashioned like unto Negroes.[43] Osiris, one of the principal deities of the Egyptians, is frequently represented as black.[44] Bubastis, also, the Diana of Greece, and a member of the great Egyptian Triad, is now on exhibition in the British Museum, sculptured in black basalt silting figure.[45] Among the Hindus, Kali, the consort of Siva, one of their great Triad; Crishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu; and Vishnu also himself, the second of the Trimerti or Hindu Triad, are represented of a black color.[46] Dr. Morton says,—­

“The Sphinx may have been the shrine of the Negro population of Egypt, who, as a people, were unquestionably under our average size.  Three million Buddhists in Asia represent their chief deity, Buddha, with Negro features and hair.  There are two other images of Buddha, one at Ceylon and the other at Calanee, of which Lieut.  Mahoney says, ’Both these statues agree in having crisped hair and long, pendent ear-rings,’"[47]

And the learned and indefatigable Hamilton Smith says,—­

“In the plains of India are Nagpoor, and a ruined city without name at the gates of Benares (perhaps the real Kasi of tradition), once adorned with statues of a woolly-haired race."[48]

Now, these substantial and indisputable traces of the march of the Negro races through Japan and Asia lead us to conclude that the Negro race antedates all profane history.  And while the great body of the Negro races have been located geographically in Africa, they have been, in no small sense, a cosmopolitan people.  Their wanderings may be traced from the rising to the setting sun.