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ENGLAND AND SLAVERY

... ENGLAND AND SLAVERY. 0, England, thou art fallen ! Men thou hast nursed. And heliied to share the glory of thy fame, Have fondled slavery— the thing accurst- Anil, coward-like, been traitors to thy fame. Their deed, which dims thy mefc-or flag flame, ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1876
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SLAVERY QUESTION

... THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Is it a war to put down slavery ? Let us take the bull by the horns at once. Slavery is still the law of the land by express proclamation of the President and Act of Congress in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Western Virginia, the ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ENGLISH SLAVERY

... his hearers.—The Chairman then alluded to scenes which had witnessed ia connection with American slavery. comparing the misery caused by the American slavery with the misery caused by drink, the speaker said, in canvassing the general election be went into ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1874
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1028 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AMERICAN SLAVERY

... AMERICAN SLAVERY. Lecture was delivered Monday evening, Crossstreet Chapel, to a crowded audience by the Rev. M. Johnson, M.R.C.S., a gentleman of colour, who was for 24 years a slave iv the United States of America. The subject of the lecture was : My ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1866
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SLAVERY AND THE STICK

... SLAVERY AND THE STICK Hitherto the impression has prevailed in Russia, 28 elsewhere in Europe, that serfdom was abolished once and for all time in 1861 by the late Emperor. This is, however, far from being the case, and it appears from the Russian news; ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1889
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BARBARISM OF AMERICAN SLAVERY

... barbarous in the instruments it employs; barbarous in consequences; barbarous in spirit; barbarous wherever it shows itself, slavery must breed barbarians, while it de- velops everywhere, alike in the individual and in the society of which he forms a part ...

Published: Thursday 28 June 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 999 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HORRORS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY

... HORRORS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY The 'Liberator,' Anti-Slavery journal, of Boston, strings together several extracts from advertisements of various dates, to illustrate the horrors of slavery; and the incidents, though of kind familiar to the reader, are too ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1852
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SLAVERY IN CENTRAL AFRICA

... SLAVERY IN CENTRAL AFRICA. HORRIBLE STORIES. Mr. Hutley, a missionary belonging to the London Society, who has seen much service amongst the tribes of Central Africa, writes the Times a lengthy account of what he has seen of the terrible traffic in human ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1882
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2888 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT ON SLAVERY

... THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT ON SLAVERY. Swift is surpassed. bis keenest satire is there anything approaching to the American President's congratulations on the subject of slavery? a striking proof of tbe sense of justice which is inherent in our people that ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 803 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ENGLISIT CHILDREN IN SLAVERY,

... ENGLISIT CHILDREN IN SLAVERY, It hias come 0 the knowledge of the British Consule Geaeralat Pera that a French-Arab troup of acrobats, who Lave Leen performaing ia Constantineple, coutains a nuinber of English children in a condition of slavery, it is said there ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1881
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1209 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SELLING ENGLISH BOYS INTO SLAVERY

... approval, which was this morally speaking, these children had been sold into slavery, much so as any negro in Africa ; but he did not think the statute for the suppression slavery would apply to the present case. The only point that struck him as having ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1882
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1549 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PRO-SLAVERY FEELING IN AMERICA

... PRO-SLAVERY FEELING IN AMERICA. It appears that in the ‘‘ Disciples’ College,” at Bethany, Virginia, it is the custom for the students to elect, under the rules of a literary society in the institution, one of their members to preach on the Sunday evening ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1856
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 970 | Page: 2 | Tags: none