... Child Slavery in Hong Kong. Tin; following resolution has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies : in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong children of all ages from infancy upwards are bought and sold into conditions of slavery and are ...

... they hated one another ! Tacitus speaks of the Jews as the scum of slavery. Seneca, when he speaks of the Jews, speaks of this miserable and criminal nation who are spread over all the world. The Jews returned all that hatred with interest. The ...

... subjugation of all opposition, was born at a time when the temperance and anti-slavery agitations were needing and claiming the support of all thinking women. Echoes of the anti-slavery agitation ring in our ears still to-day, for news comes from San Thome of ...

... election, civil war broke out in America. The issue was not nominally slavery but whether any State, once admitted to the Union, had a right to leave it. Actually, it was a question of slavery because the only point on which feeling rose to such a pitch as ...

... and debt, Abraham Lincoln became by degrees a figure in local politics at a time when slavery was a burning question in America. The question had arisen whether slavery should be confined to those States in which it was already established, or whether it ...

... by the Allies in 1919-20. An interesting study is given of the Daughters of Islam in the transition from the almost happy slavery of a life spent in trivialities to the freedom which carries with it the graver responsibilities of life. Professor Meilroy ...

... His principles were fatal to slavery ; but he accepted slavery as one of the familiar facts of life, and one may question whether he foresaw or even desired its total abolition. Certainly any one bold enough to advocate slavery to-day might fairly urge that ...

... servitude, so like slavery in some aspects that the attempt to abolish it would seem to be a repetition of the struggle against slavery of a century ago. This labour is of two kinds—work of public utility, and work for private employers. The Slavery Convention ...

... community to permit of her keeping aloof. The question was first raised in connexion with another sacred cause—the abolition of slavery ; and the advocacy of it has not only expanded during the seventy years of agitation, but also risen to higher planes. The ...

... Haslewood, supported by various societies for social reform, to induce the British Government to abolish the system of child slavery (known as mui tsai) in the Colony of Hong Kong. As an outcome of this just agitation a Bill was passed by the Hong Kong L ...

... slave free. Why did it take the Church hundreds of years to realise that slavery was wrong ? Many good and sincere Christians have pointed to St. Paul himself as a proof that. slavery was a divine institution. It took hundreds of years for the Church to ...

... disclose the Church as ever foremost to wage war upon those conditions which it had learned to recognise as alien to its spirit. Slavery and serfdom went down before its onslaught. Destitution, suffering, ignorance, found in it an implacable foe. Let any man ...