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AFRICAN SLAVERY

... AFRICAN SLAVERY. FROM America we learn that the screw steamer City of Norfolk bad been discovered ashore near the Sierra Morena, having been abandoned by her crew after landing from her hold the enormous number of 800 African slaves. This vessel is one ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1860
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1421 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AFRICAN SLAVERY

... excuses for Zanzibar slavery that their numbers would die out were they not continually replenished by fresh importations; but this, though slaves, is not true freemen. Sir Bartle Frere expresses his conviction that were slavery abolished to-morrow, no ...

SLAVERY IN CHINA

... SLAVERY IN CHINA. In a recent report to the Department of State in Washington, Colonel Denby, the United States Minister to Pekin, says that Chinese writers attribute the origin of slavery in that country to crime, the first slaves being felons. They ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1888
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SLAVERY IN ENGLAND

... SLAVERY IN ENGLAND. Toe of Shaft. the ettuatioe etas House of oa eveoiog to the report et lie Children's Employment Cooditheree, eon, in their knit report among othen• to the fo▪ lhoind work. Pe/Steel., limiter match tenth.oo th, paperotaining work., ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1863
Newspaper: Greenock Herald
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2399 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SLAVERY AND LABOUR

... SLAVERY AND LABOUR. The difficulties in regard to labour supply which follow the emancipation of slaves are referred to in reports by Mr. W. F. Segrace from Baltimore, and by Mr. F. S. Hampshire, Acting Consul at Santos, in Brazil. Mr. Segrave says that ...

Published: Friday 25 May 1888
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SLAVERY IN INDIA

... SLAVERY IN INDIA. The runjaub authorities are just now engaged In trying to stop a traffic in slaves which is said to have existed from time immemorial. So the Pa ily New,: Calcutta correspondent tells us. But what have the runjaub authorities been thinking ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1889
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE CONFERENCE ON SLAVERY

... THE CONFERENCE ON SLAVERY. At the forthcoming Conference upon Slavery, to be held Brussels, the following representatives of this country have been appointed tiio Government to act as Plenipotentiaries :—Lord Vivian and Sir John Kirk, assisted the following ...

SLAVERY IN CUBA

... SLAVERY IN CUBA. The announcement recently made that the law for the gradual abolition slavery has been signed by the King of Spain incorrect. It merely the lonv-delayed code of rules for the working of Senor Wortz’s preparatory law of 1868, which has ...

SLAVERY IN CUBA

... SLAVERY IN CUBA. The Times, commenting on the debate Mr Hughes’s motion on Friday evening, says that it greatly doubts whether the long agitation against slavery did all the good it was intended to do, or-can bo credited with much cf the result now happily ...

SLAVERY IN BRAZIL

... SLAVERY IN BRAZIL. Advices from iirazil announce that the question of slavery had lately occupied the serious attention of the Government, and that the next meeting of the Chambers measures fur its gradual extinction will be introduced. A mung the most ...

PARTIZANS OF SLAVERY

... PARTIZANS OF SLAVERY. The spirit shown by the Southern ladles is seen in Alexandria. They stay shut up In their houses, hut as soldiers of the Union pass they actually spit upon them from their windows ! The &c 'Won mania seems to convert the women into ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1861
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SLAVERY AND SUGAR

... SLAVERY AND SUGAR. In diacturin? the question the Slave Circulars, the Plan tr*b' Gazette says that, while it has generally been assumed that the actions the British Government and Par* liamont have always been consistently antagonistic to slavery in ...