SLAVERY IN TURKEY.*

... certainly be augmented in intensio-, although they may be diminished in extent. The slavery of the whites presents far less objectionablle characteristics than the slavery of the blacks. With the Circassians it is conlmmory the * result of choice by the ...

SLAVERY IN CUBA

... rection. The most striking portions of Captain Town- shend's account of Cuba are, however, those which describe what he saw of slavery. Wishing to see the slaves actually at work, he visited the sugar plantation of Tolosa, near the town of Marianec, ten miles ...

SLAVERY FOR THEATRICAL CRITICS

... [T/iefollowing appeared in our TowN EDITION of last Week.] SLAVERY FOR THEATRICAL CRITICS. Theatrical Managers have discovered an ingenious method of revenging themselves upon the unfortunate critics for all the bard things they may have felt it their ...

Published: Sunday 20 October 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS

... 1878, as to whether it was the intention of Her Government, on assuming the of Cyprus, to maintain or suppress the system of slavery existing in the isiand, and wil! ask for the re) then promised by the Lord President frum the (Governor, G. Wolseley. The ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... Lecture for 1874) on Slavery and the Slave Trade opens the number. Sir Samuel takes the ground that slavery has its origin in the de- basement of the enslaver, and that as peoples advance in civilisation so they repudiate slavery - a comforting doctrine ...

THE BRITISH MUSEUM

... although it t f may not be possible to take moulds from them. v SLAVERY IN MADAGASCAR. E The Whitec7zpet Review published yesterday the c aannouncement of the complete extinction of slavery tin Madagascar. This intelligence is contained in a t letter just ...

LITERARY CURIOSITIES

... lettered ease 'tis tilne to know. lONGFELLOW. L nys ?? th!ne have many a charm; o ft thy themes the heart must warm. N ow o'er Slavery's guilt and woes. t sief and shame's deep hues it throws; F ar up Alpine heights is beard E scelsior, now the stirring ...

LES ESCLAVES CHRETIENS.*

... with the downfall of slavery in Europe. This fallacy M. Allard overthrows by a calm straightforward account, backed up by abundant references, of what the Christian Church actually did in the first four centuries in mitigation of slavery and in support of ...

POETRY

... her ide, 4evero ker laws, Forsiheshall win, And conquer siu Men shall be fee for ' Truth makes free, And eau't be held In slavery; Do uot despair, The earth is fair Good holds sway in spite of evil, God's supreme and not the devil. Take eonrap yo who foreosmt ...

THE JUBILEE SINGERS

... proclamation, and in 'which they have still to encounter mauny difficulties and hardships, the heritage of generations of slavery. These singers are no burlesque minstrels such as those we have been accus- tomed to hear at various times. Singing for a ...

LITERATURE

... author credit, and some of his remarks are dictated by a wholesome sense of what is due to humanity, For instance, he says of slavery- Slave labour not only reduces the slave to the level of a beast, but demoralises the society which employs it. Slave labour ...

Published: Sunday 16 May 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture