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WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

... downfall of American Slavery. Yet he has lived to see it; and now, at Gl years of age, though poor and in bad health, he enjoys tbe proud satisfaction looking back on a life well spent. He purposes to write history of the Anti- Slavery movemeut, but is not ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1866
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OP NEGRO TROOPS

... mutinied. Orders were given that they should be decinuitetl, and it is stated that 300 U were either massacred or sold into slavery. ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1866
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ADDRESS TO SIXTY-SIX. Young Year, ye ha'e been welcomed in meikle daffin', mirth, and din, By a' newfangled ..

... Republic, grand and glorious. Rose to the victorious; An', tho' achieved fearfu' cost, They noo true liberty can boast. And slaveryslavery, base and vile. Can noo use mair pollute their soil; For black or brown henceforth shall As freemen wor'iing wi' the free; ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1866
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 662 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WEST INDIES

... Havana is much liked and very popular. Great anxiety existed on account of the determination of the Government to suppress slavery, and cargoes of coolies were arriving in the island almost daily. A revolution had broken out at Hayti, Venezeuli, and had ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1866
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EMANCIPATION IN AMERICA

... EMANCIPATION IN AMERICA. The official announcement has now length been made that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude exists in America. The constitutional amendment j has been accepted 27 of the States of the i Union. Air Seward is consequently ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1866
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1378 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Fife Herald. Cupar, Thursday, February, 15, 1866. A horrible tale comes from Egypt. It is stated that 4000 ..

... they should be decimated ; but instead of that, it is rather vaguely added, 3600 of them were either massacred or sold into slavery. From Jamaica, we learn that Sir Henry Storks opened the Royal Commission on the 23d, and had promised that the Court should ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1866
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR OLIPHANT ON RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA

... That amendment of the constitution which the abolition of slavery involves, has always appeared to as not so much amendment, the legitimate reading of the constitution. The existence of slavery under such an instrument was anomaly. all men are born free ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1866
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2612 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEWS NOTES FROM EDINBURGH

... speech on the abolition of slavery. He said that the glorious intelligence had just reached this country, and wou n sound over all the world, that the were now, henceforth, and for ever free from the blotand bondage of slavery. There were two articles that ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1866
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2347 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION

... the controversy regarding slavery, in which they the mQ6t the side abohtmn, they had been accustomed to repudiate the claims of the + domestic institution, or l least to look with comnlacency on any proposal by which slavery might be assailed, without ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1866
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1547 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

( Per Penrcian via Greencastle.)

... homicide during the riot. The Freedman's Bureau Inspector reports that the system of contracts in force by the bureau is simply slavery in modified form. Davis' health is rapidly failing. his counsel is still endeavouring to obtain his release on Queen Emma ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1866
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE FREEDMEN

... those who labour in this work will have to struggle more and more against an element opposition. There are, who say, that if slavery is abolished, it is necessary to accept the fact as inevitable and irrevocable ; but it is not necessary to elevate the slave ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1866
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 752 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE FREED NEGROES OF AMERICA

... these claims would be recognised iii Britain, lie had fought with Wardlaw and Hughe in the West in the great bat tie against slavery, when it was abolished in our Colonies, and when Government voted £20,000,000 to compensate the slaveowners. At the time had ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1866
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2570 | Page: 2 | Tags: none