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ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN BRAZIL

... ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. IN ' t W: t :, BRAZI l. I .g ?? - Th e follwin circular has been sent by the Icperial Minister of Foreign Affairs at ibo de neiro to the representntives of Brazil at foreign courts with regardito the passage of thee recent law finaly ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1640 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT GRANT'S MESSAGE

... Brazil to carry out as soon as possible the initiatory step which has been taken by that Government towards the abolition of slavery. lie states that the relations of the United States with the Brazilian empire, which have always been cordial, will natu- ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1834 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND AND THE WEST INDIAN COOLIES

... ability, little less difficult of solution than that of slavery itself It is the proper regulation of the coolie immigration into those colo- nies, which has grown up since the abolition e of.slavery closed to the sugar cultivators It the supply of labour ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2478 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... should have been permitted to be carried into slavery from the want of proper interference on the part. of the colonial authorities. If we were powerless to protect the people of South Africa from slavery, we ought to give up our colonies there altogether ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3315 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

AMENDMENTS IN THE WORKSHOP ACTS

... set prose- cuting. We are glad to observe that the brick- works are to be brought under legal supervision. The species of slavery which has existed at many of these places, in connection with the employ- ment of girls, has long cried aloud for redress ...

Published: Monday 28 August 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 818 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SELECT VESTRY

... present who advocated the sending of these children to Maryland-one of those places only recently removed from a state of slavery * and he was doubtful whether any of these chidren, if sent out there, would be lookedupon asany better than slaves. HIe t1tought ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 836 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE ALLEGED IRREGULARITIES AT THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE

... July lagt, while the remaining third fled, aid were rnostly captured by roving troops of Tuaromans and Afghans, and led into slavery. At Schlraz and at Tabris, insurrections have broken out. The cholera declared itself at the latter lace6-whilch suffered ...

SUMMARY

... the tumult was beyond description. Eventually the condemnatory yesoltition . was tnassed , The bill for the abolition of slavery lias' passed the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, and was to come on for discussion in the Senate on the 15th instant. Mersey ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... rlelsa ers pellerltly are not prepared t have ?? strets llin-iered w ithl empty beer barrels, tin ad%1t-ii-o the dsgrvdi:-g slavery slwiclh hal8 been illpase4 bfl( tIlemt. 'To hliie tteir fitters titus g-rtingly ex- llillit d is us little too tutish. Whet ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 956 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FARMING IN VIRGINIA

... planters con- sisted almost entirely of slaves. Some owned as many as 100, worth from S1000 to $200 each. By ihe abolition of slavery, men who-had been large capitalists have become so poor that they have not now the means to work their lands, They there- ...

Published: Tuesday 31 October 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1359 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER

... death, is not now acted on. Why not, if the law is at all binding upon us? n The old law laid down doctrines authorising it slavery in all its hideousness, but which in a mere e-nlightened age have been done away with. The, a laws and observances of eye ...

Published: Monday 06 March 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1747 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OVERWORKED RAILWAY SERVANTS

... It system; so that, when we have ceased to wonder at the meekness with which so many men can a undertake this awful white slavery the natural 1k feeling is that nothing is now wantved to complete a- the argument of Mr. Bass except a tremendous re accident ...

Published: Tuesday 29 August 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1566 | Page: 3 | Tags: News