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SLAVERY AND ANTI-SLAVERY

... SLAVERY AND ANTI-SLAVERY. l- s , e .1 - t e _ . en, TnE meeting of the Leeds Young Men's Anti- ily a] Lee 'Slavery Society took place on Tuesday evenin~g. Of only uncourse it derived a ulore than usual interest from the slave 'as present circumstances ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1861
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1902 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE DOWNFALL OF SLAVERY

... SLAVERYI Last night, a meeting was held ill the Music Hall, Leeds, to express satisfaction at the probame overthrow of American slavery, to devise means to aid in the relief of large numbers of the recently emancipated negroes, and to receive a deputation from ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3540 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

AMERICAN SLAVERY

... his detestation of slavery wherever it was to be found. (Cheers). He then P called upon ti Mr. G. B. BRtOWNE, magistrate, who moved the first o resolution, in which the meeting recorded its unabated de. testation of the crime of slavery, and of all measures ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1863
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1489 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SECESSION AND SLAVERY

... SECESSION AND SLAVERY. The following song by Whittier, tbe~ American lowil poet, has jtiat appeaared' in the N~ir' York journ-d it floam eet. publication shows the immenesse progress which the cause of the p Abolition has, snade within the last twelve ...

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

... ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCOURY. I GkENTLlE~MrREI-May I suggest, through your con- t I istent columns, that the friends of this great cause should a Ibe up and stirring to give their moral support to honest e IAhe Lincoln ...

Published: Friday 10 October 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE DIVINITY OF SLAVERY

... Southner sympathies, accompanied with an avowed approvail of Slavery, than- Southern sympathies mansking, themselves tinder a pretended dislike of slavery. That the Times practically supported slavery niust be obvious to all who have tracked its course with ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1863
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2612 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SECESSION AND SLAVERY

... Y 11 De ivilate(l sol0 DUI0I11g Our prisoner, your N ] SECESSION AND SLAVERY. iug (FronM Punch.) ?ar. -Secede, ye Southern States, secede, of No better Jplan could be, ex - If you of Niggers would be freed, of To set your Niggera free. de- Runaway s1laves ...

THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

... THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; (From the Daily News.) If the Canada had brought no other news on d Tuesday than that the Supreme Legislature of the United c States had decreed the abolition of slavery over the vast area b subject to its authority, the act ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1634 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AMERICAN SLAVERY

... Bible that God ever sanc- tioned slavery in any degree whatever. He did not use the word slavery when he spoke of servitude. Servitude God did permit and regulate under the Mosaic law, but it -was not slavery. Slavery was defined in America to be the ...

Published: Friday 12 February 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2180 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SLAVERY AND SECESSION

... SLAVERY A-ND SEĀ¶4CESSIFON. THE ?? fronm Anierica does not becomte miore t incouraging. The great cralic in the lnion gocs on deepening and woidening, andl the mighty fabric of the American Republic threatens in a moment to fall t asinder. While the chances ...

Published: Tuesday 22 January 1861
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2174 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SLAVERY IN THE PACIFIC

... SLAVERY IN THE PACIFIC. Considerable excitement has existed in Sydney during the past month, arising out of authentic intelligence e having been received, confirmatory of rumours which for a, , considerable time have been afloat, relative to a number ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1863
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1414 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

CUBAN SLAVERY

... CUBAN SLAVERY. - I-Af.-0 { 1A - +n. wh CUBA is hardly the place to which we should look for anti-slavery, feeling, unless, indeed, on the part of the slaves, who might reasonably be sup- posed to entertain on this subject more enlightened views than their ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1863
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 963 | Page: 2 | Tags: News