... plantations. As for Cuba's relations to Spain, so long as the men in Madrid could keep a firm hold on the island, so lorg as slavery and emancipation were mere speculative themes for Liberal debating clubs, Cuba was nearly as valuable to the needy Spaniards ...

... people of unusual interest. Jamaica will ever be associated with the measure of which it was the martyr, for the abolition of slavery; and the negro as a personage of such growing importance in America is now rather more than less interesting than he was as ...

... to have their work done for them, first of all by negro slaves and afterwards by Chinese coolies. The suppression of negro slavery, which, with a want of accuracy quite pardonable in an Oriental, he ascribes to the joint action cf the British and American ...

... if they had been a blessing, to Africa. Mr. Gilmore asserts (as did Mr. Rankin, late. Acting-Consul in. Mozambique) that slavery still prevails in these settle m'ents, in spite of treaties, though Brazil no longer offers a market for the export trade ...

... was adopted as the result of experience, but that there is clear proof that it is a mere vestige of an original state of slavery in which women were held by men by superior muscular strength. The inequality of rights between men and women has no other ...

... of the clergy, and the treatment of the Indians are subjects frequently mentioned. Slavery, it is said, is generally talked of as doomed, since the abolition of slavery in the United States; but still it exists, and beyond talk nothing has yet been done ...

... will deny, but then, says the average American, so much the worse for the Constitution. The sudden raising of the black from slavery to citizenship, and his position and conduct during the Reconstruction period, caused much bad blood, and it became very soon ...

... Maryland, and related in every way to slaveholders, gr. Creswell investigated the subject of slavery philosophically, and reached an independent anti-slavery view which he was able to state to the Mary- landers with immense effect, and yet with such excellent ...

... years later, reinforced by the rapid development of anti-slavery sentiment in the free States, ten Senators voted steadily against the specious measures which were designed to perpetuate slavery in the territories. The heroic band in the Senate and in ...

... valiantly if attacked together, but if any stragglers of our party wandered off too far, and were taken prisoners, such a life of slavery would be worse a hundred times than death. And yet, mother, perhaps we might in that way become missionaries, and do the ...

... hotbed of Abolition, and Mrs. Beecher Stowe became an ardent Abolitionist. She contributed articles to several local anti-slavery papers, and otherwise exerted-berinfluence against the vile traffic. In 1850 her husband received a professorship at Bowdoin ...

... absorbed in our| own affairs; and the condition, worse than slavery, of masses of our own citizens employs our philatithropic energies to the full in these days; but it is not so very long since the slavery question was a burning one. When a comrade begged Garrison ...