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PORTRAIT OF ABE LINCOLN

... in 1809 and assassinated by Wilkes Booth in 1865. He ivas sixteenth President of the United States, and his opposition to slavery was the cause of the secession of the Confederate States, and, ultimately of the American Civil War. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 90 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH STATESMEN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

... great figures of the time, Charles James Fox, Wil-. liam Wilberforce, cham pion of liberty, who stood for the abolition of slavery, Napoleon Bonaparte him self, Talleyrand and George III. are all pre sented on the screen. Much trouble has been taken to ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 516 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

WOAD!: CELEBRITIES IN UNDRESS: XLVII.--FLORENCE MILLS

... (This conversation sounds broken, but how could it be otherwise Down South it 's still terrible. There isn't slavery any more not real slavery but there 's something very like it. She shut her eyes quickly. A line of black lashes over a delicate, coffee ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1422 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... the Foreign Secre tary, was granted an interview by her husband yesterday. She was a member of a deputation from the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society. The Foreign Secretary received us very nicely, said Lady Simon. MRS. ST. GEORGE'S TREE ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 617 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HATS TO

... methods compulsory in their district. Mr. Upton Sinclair, the novelist, who once denounced matrimony as a 44 legalised form of slavery, has just married again, his bride being Miss Mary Craig Kimbrough. Mr. Sinclair, it may be recalled, divorced his first ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 694 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... the vessel, is the friendly official in timation. T Independ- Independence L. ence Day was a day of subjection not to say slavery for Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw rceia. ine crusn at tne nmDassy was formidable enough, and the banquet crowned the hard labours ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 874 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

TOPICS OF THE TIME

... about them Deny me beer, deny me tea except that precious cup, the early 1 I '11 let my day a banquet be of sacrifice and slavery, if but at night I still may see my Girly.- --A. B. M. THE SPORTING AMERICAN FLEET IN BRITISH WATERS: A BOUT WITH THE GLOVES ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 821 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD OF SPORT

... you they can do as they like with their own but the Stewards of the Jockey Club are not likely to perpetuate a system of slavery under which the slave owners capture all the profits and fail to pro vide proper provision for their slaves after the latter ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 973 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEW COMMANDER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SQUADRON

... particu larly gallant circum stances. In 1889, Admiral Moore was selected by the Government to represent England at the Anti-Slavery Con ference that was held at Brussels in that year. Shortly after liis duties in connec tion with this matter had been completed ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

Other People's Troubles: A Paris Letter

... of a time when women were not emancipated is conspicuous on everv white arm. But do not dare to sav that it is a symbol of slavery SlSLEY HUDDLESTON. IN HIS ROBES AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. Under his robes, the Prince wore ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1921
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1017 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... publishers'? The Publishers' Circular's comment on this is effective Fancy the great American Republic, after abolishing slavery at the cost of a bloody war, asking if piracy is beneficial to American publishers! All interested in publishing will watch ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES: MONEY AND THE MARKETS

... offending Ordinance in such manner as to meet all the objections levelled against it on the charge oj slavery Nobody wants the least taint of slavery to prevail in this liberty-loving Empire, nor can it seem reasonable, to any except (anatics, that vast ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2140 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs