ILLEGAL

... not get his Bill through Parliament until 1807, g() years after his first speech against slavery, when he was nearly 48. Even so, that Bill was to abolish slavery in stages and it was not until 1811 that the slave trade was made illegal in Britain. There ...

The significance of man

... serious subfect. William Wilberforce in 1832 brought about the abolition of slavery in British Dominions, Abraham Lincoln was compelled to have civil war in America to abolish slavery in 1865. No man is good enough to be another man’'s master. and no nation ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1962
Newspaper: Biggleswade Chronicle
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Water charges, but no water

... Water charges, but no water . the Slavery water supply was Bur_lcrana Council has to have started last week, and unanimously supported a 4 what the delay was. motion proposed by Colr. Jim Supporting the motion Colr. Shcri{lan, calling on the Joe Doherty ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1995
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

WHY HISTORY NEEDS ITS SHACKLES

... scrupulous deeply The 'A Respectable Trade? the Bristol City powerful and moving exhibition, and Transatlantic Slavery', which runs September I. slavery has been called Britain's Museum & Art Gallery until 1 Bth-century prosperity, still from this inhuman business ...

Published: Thursday 06 May 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1320 | Page: 81 | Tags: none

HUMBUG AND HYPOCRISY

... hypocrisy in Britain? For years our country has condemned slavery in countries abroad with a selfrighteous and smug satisfaction. All the time, these brave crusaders and politicians closed their eyes to slavery in Britain — we hear their cry of “All men in Britain ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1982
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

5 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

... 5 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Slavery to perfection is the dullest form of human bondage ...

Published: Friday 03 October 1980
Newspaper: Brighouse Echo
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 15 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Reviews by RICHARD CHU RCH-continued

... responsibility for the welfare of the folk on the estates, the extort ion and the extravagance over again t the tarvation and the slavery. The sound of the tumbril was still a long way off, but it could be heard. Mr. Treasure directs our ear to it, and we listen ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1966
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 329 | Page: 71 | Tags: none

10606 8

... Celebrating the work and ways of the Poet Laureate. 9.50 NEWS ON 2; Weather. 10.00 A STATE OF SLAVERY. David Henshaw reports from Mauritania on the survival of slavery. 11.00-12.55 am. FILM OF THE WEEK: ‘MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ' (1971) starring Gena Rowlands, ...

Mitchells, and we had better make sure that we are of those few before we try to imitate him too closely. I do ..

... difficulties to be met when any commission of enquiry into slavery attempts to bring t o light the tortuous windings of the African mind . I have but faintly A much more straightforward state of slavery is met with in Abyssinia. raiding expeditions are simply ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1923
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2841 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

BASSINGHAN

... invited to ask questioms. It was unumf after the clear statement of Transvaal slavery given by Mr. Lupton, to find one gentleman rubbing his eyes, and asking what was meant by slavery. Mr. Lupton is clearly the kind of man mneeded just mow in_the mother of ...

THE SLAVE TRADE

... the African explorer, has delivered a lecture in Vienna on the Slave Trade question. Dr. Baumann is opposed to the * Anti- Slavery movement,” which he believes will have exactly the contrary effect to that which is intended. He is of opinion that the e ...

BORN TO EXILE

... English exiles in the Appalachians as the Welsh in Patagonia, the Scots in Canada as the Irish in Boston, the West Africans in slavery in the Americas, and nowadays, certainly, the Jews the songs of their homelands, wherever these may have been. Saul Friedlander's ...

Published: Thursday 07 May 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 360 | Page: 139 | Tags: none