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PREACHING WITII PISTOLS

... piatola recall another bold clergyman. a Presbyterian of Kentucky, who was a prominent leader in the movement to abolish slavery from the State. Once when be had been announced to preach, an angry• crowd of opponents gathered about the meeting-hotoo, ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1897
Newspaper: Henley & South Oxford Standard
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WESLEYAN FOREIGN IES

... way, His wonders to perform, and that had been illustrated in regard to the West Indian islands. It was not long ago that slavery was carried on in those islands. In 1768 one of the slave owners was very ill and the doctors gave biro no hopes unless he ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1893
Newspaper: Henley & South Oxford Standard
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1837 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

KING'S HENLEY ADVERTISER

... in other parts of Africa. Slavery. therefore, holds a prominent position amongst them. Slaves are made in a variety of ways. Prisoners of war, if not executed, become slaves. Misconduct and dent are fruitful sources of slavery. But from these causes many ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1874
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1643 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RIISSLLL ON HISTORY. On Monday', Earl Russell delivered his hungersl address as President of the Historical ..

... of slavery thrmighont the British dominioas. Abolished, too, North America In the rouse of the Civil War, it is a matter of IT,Pieugg to every one who values the freedom of rna kind to see that with the exception 4,f Brazil and Cuba, where slavery cannot ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1872
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1613 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CONVICT TREATMENT IN AMERICA

... expressions must inevitably lead downward, instead of upward. Thu resumption of the work week by week partakes of the oaten) of slavery, and though it has its rewards for geed conduct, it must have an enervating effect. The crime statistics of the United States ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1898
Newspaper: Henley & South Oxford Standard
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

RESCUE OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW;

... tribes of Moorish marauders might have oome down on them, when they would have been pillaged, and .probably carried a into slavery, as has been the lot of the crews of previous vessels wrecked on this dreary mast, Their only weapons were a few muskets and ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1876
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 328 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PEARLS FROM THE TALMUD

... father and his Rabbi have lost something, the should first seek that lost by the Rabbi. do a Rabbi is to be asdeemed from slavery before a parent ; for a parent Ilm'araly responsible for his child's body, bat the Rabbi b responsible for his mind.— The ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1875
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE GARDEN

... Nursery. You may try, but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet__ to surer the slavery of being a girl.—Oeorge Eliot. ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1885
Newspaper: Henley & South Oxford Standard
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOW THAI SLAVE LABOUR

... Jane Askew. aged 21, was committed for trial, charged with the wilful murder of her ~lllegitimate child THE abolition of slavery in Brazil was not carried nut withont the most severe pressure from the Imperial family. The Emperor had even to threaten ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1888
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ANNEXATION OP FIJI

... a Crown Colony would be £15,000 a year the revenue would be 040,000), and that annexation would lead to the extinction of slavery and the slave trade. Mr. Baillie Cochrane, while seconding the Resolution, suggested that before annexation we should come ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1874
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NEWS NOTES

... long resident in Africa. It is estimated that oat of • population of 200,000,000 at least 50,000,000 are still in • state of slavery, as in many parts of the interior slaves are the only means of exchange for commodities, and in nearly all parts goods are ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1897
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. FORSTER INTERVIEWED'

... representative of the Herald met Mr. Foretter and his nephew, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, grandson of the Buxton of anti-slavery fame. In course of conversation several questions were commented upon of public interest, and a summary of that commentary ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1874
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1342 | Page: 6 | Tags: none