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FRANCE

... locked up in his desk; and the whole nation, so strangely divided a. between the friends of freedom and the friends of t. slavery, look on with intense anxiety for the augury to be derived from the election of Speaker. a PROTECTIONISTS ROUTED ATKNARESSBRO' ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1245 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... between the two great leading parties, refuse to vote for a candidate who is not pledged to their viewseot the exteribion of slavery. The contest lisa produced great excitement not only in the House, but throughtout the country. In lt.e progress of the struggle ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3611 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LEEDS:

... perceive 1,that the Anti-slavery Committee have invited Mr. William y Wells Brown, of the United States, to visit Leeds, nvxt week, for the purpose of giving one or more lectures. Mr 8 Brown is a maci of ol~our, and a fugitive from slavery. He lies published ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4376 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY

... of political ?? liberty and personal slavery in immediate juxta- ic:position. And tlse most curious thing of all, perhaps, ?O7is, that in America, the Pro-Steivery men are the ?? Traders, whilst tlte Anti-Slavery men are the iet Monopolists! it) ?? regard ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1796 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LATEST LONDON & FOREIGN NEWS

... held to promote the extension of the franchise. Two anti-slavery meetings had been held ; one to petition Parliament to enforce slavery treaties, the other to hear a deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society in England. A very large crop of sugar is expected ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WEST RIDING FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY

... England swallowed in intoxicating drinks two Birminigisoma annuolly. (Eleos',boar.) Talk about despotism and slavery, what despolism and slavery could be no bad as that which men laboered under who ware slaves to their own rippallles. I Hoea, boar.) The ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12521 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE SLAVE TRADE AND ITS REMEDY

... question. We ought to add, that in the face of apparently ad- verse experience, many of the ablest and most earnest o anti-slavery leaders are still profoundly impressed with the conviction that the withdrawal of the cruisers from the coast of Africa would ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

Advertisements & Notices

... atrocities ef tire slave trade, arid the urgent need of an efficient refomedy. o will also ho given on the prospects of the Anti- slavery canse generally tironurholit thle world. Thle chair will be takon by thle MAY(lt, at seven o'clock precisely. NilB. 'Tho ...

SLAVERY IN AMERICA

... himself warn thre chain of slavery. He slouald ri .St, therefore speak of slavery asti liehd, seen it, sand as lie Icnew itn ely to exiat inr.the I . oe xitI h slave holding states of America,. ler ta. ge' Though the quesetion of slavery bad oiften bsen diecussed ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4989 | Page: 7 | Tags: Commerce 

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING AT LEEDS

... must dhat .,dootroy slavery, If ever they would got rid of the slave trade. So long lob dI as slavery existed, the barter of human beings most exist also, bib a Therefore, the Anti-Slavery Society turned their attention to slavery quo in the Spanioh colonies ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7631 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LEEDS:

... the Philosopleical-ball, Huddersfield, on t Thursday evening, in connection with the anti-slavery 1 agitation. Mr. John Scoble, the secretary to the Anti- c Slavery Society, attended as a deputation from that society, I and addressed tie meeting at considerable ...

THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE AFRICAN SQUADRON

... and even of their own subjects, into the i effectual abolition of the slave-trade, and of slavery a itself. To this extent we entirely agree with the Anti-l Slavery Society, and with their eloquent Secretary, ,T Mit. SCOBLE, who is holding public meetings ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1681 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce