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... PORTRAIT OF A EGRES , BY RIE G ILHELMI E BE OI T. It may have been painted as an allu ion to the decree of 1794 aboli hing slavery. (Right) L A DORMEU E, PAI ITED BY COL 0 I 1759 mood could be caught there and then. Its directness and its brevity have something ...
... Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray, £19.99) THI book i untouched by the grey modern fa hion that ees the abolition of Briti h slavery as a largely automatic function of economic change -the long-term need to reduce ugar production, and o on. It is humanely ...
... maker was A. J. Straum, the date was 1820. Lushington (1782-1873) was a barrister, an MP and an ardent reformer and anti-slavery campaigner. The box wa old for 680 gn. GLAS FLASK, ALSO _J;L,~ lll'- at 550 gn. Published part was a pilaster surmounted ...
... home is a full-time far removed from child's play. Yet what a difference there is between life in the home now and the ' slavery The vacuum-cleaner has swept away the dustiness and weariness; the potted palms and strutting bamboo pedestals have passed ...
... still the most conservative state in Ausralia, and not long ago, transportation was a subject as ricky for Tasmanians as slavery still is for Southerners in TRAVEL DE LUXE U'here is travel heading these days? Ihe answer to that question was provided last ...
... international fame. His philosophy on fashion is ultra-modern, which means that dressing should be fun and not a form of slavery, and clothes should give one a sense of being at ease, consequently producing a feeling of being attractive and confident ...
... either religious or ecular l earning. E SCAPE FROM SLAVERY He made his first acquaintance with Ireland when raiders from the sea picked him up with others and carried him off to be sold into slavery. He worked as a shepherd for six years, and during that ...
... the cold. (Right) 5.- PORCELAI G-BOY H is cherubic face conveys the extreme youth of those once condemned to this sort of slavery watch and some jewellery evoked similar remarks, also the memory that, long before, he had been gathering flowers in his ...
... 1441, Thomas Fawke to declare for Parliament in the Civil War, and Waiter Fawkes the younger to support Wilberforce's anti-slavery movement in 1807. Nothing is known of the position or appearance of the Villa de ffarnelay, but it stood probably on or ...
... time. In retrospect they are not a ltogether attractive. They were not a bove hypocrisy, they did attack the -concept of slavery when its particular practice in the ·w est Indies was beginning to prove uneconomical, they did bequeath to the Victorians ...
... be made to the King of Denmark and to the King of Sweden and Norway. The Minister had rightly guessed that support against slavery would be forthcoming from the Danes and the Swedes (who had been first to recognise the fledgling United States). Both kings ...
... Representing the U n representable Prof David Bindman (U niversity College, London) Censoring the Past: British Art and Slavery in the 18th Century Prof Elizabeth Childs (Washington University, St Louis) Laughing Matters: Censorship and Political Caricature ...