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LITERATURE

... to nm abolish slavery throughout the Dutch colonies. Onr{ the first day of last J ulythlat great object was effected for, by all act of the Dutch legislature, I duly ratitled by the king, it was decreed that, from 01 that (late, slavery sbould cease on ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... meet-no more I UNITED S.TATES SLAVERY.-It is known that the poor re sains of Indian races have been in many cases forced into slavery. It i 'noless certain that white ohildren have some- Times been kidrappede and sold into slavery.: Rev. George Boarne, of ...

LITERATURE

... , respectingI slavery, than any individual who has hitherto written or i spoken on the subject. He commenced a tour of the West India Islands in 1837, the ptriod at vbich the negro popu- lation were supposed to be emerging from slavery into a state of ...

THE CONQUERORS OF THE NEW WORLD, AND THEIR BONDSMEN

... developmlent of the most t consptcuotls form of modern slavery, Iby trac- i ing ''the priicipal events that led to the subjcctionI of the Indianls of the New World, and e to the introduction of negro slavery in America and a the West Indics. Justly conceiviig ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... tells us that he links together on his title-page Slavery and Secession as cause and effect. Some people, he says, Say that slavery has bad nothing to do with originating the present difficulties, but that it is the desire of the South to be free from the ...

REVIEWS

... the question of slavery had not been involved. The capture of Fort Sumter in 1861 was like the French opening of the Schelde in 1793 et 0ylucpcv AXc' ol 8td qiwKpWV, ?? as' ai-ca-vis. Lincoln pre- served the Union and abolished slavery. These were the ...

LITERATURE

... ial account of id the rise and progress of slavery in the United States. Spain introduced slavery into America, but at the door of Great Britain lies the sin of its perpetuation. The trade was so lucrative that, under the patronage of royalty and commerce ...

LITERATURE

... disadvanitages of liberty, of alL mention of negro slavery ! A stranger to A.me- 1 rica and its history miight read the wvhole of the 530 octavo puge vithout discovering that sach a thing I as negro slavery existed, or that it existed in i 30uth Carolina ...

LITERATURE

... course, the work is9 intended as a contribution} to the anti-slavery movement, and, as such, will be' chiefly read in this eonntry. Yielding to no one in the intensity of our conviction that slavery is a violation of the first principles of the moral law and ...

TRAVELLERS' TALES

... simple stories was . effective. It won instant Iavour, aud established Mr. Alfied Pease in the good opinionl of mtembers. SLAVERY IX iZANZIBAR. Atother of the familv of I'ease inade anl interesting contribution to the pi.tht's debate. on, thle Civil S-ervice ...

LES ESCLAVES CHRETIENS.*

... with the downfall of slavery in Europe. This fallacy M. Allard overthrows by a calm straightforward account, backed up by abundant references, of what the Christian Church actually did in the first four centuries in mitigation of slavery and in support of ...

LITERARY NOTES

... also be issued. An important contribution to the history of slavery in America has just been published by the Johns Hopkins Press, of Baltimore, U.S.A. The wvork is entitled History of Slavery in Connecticut, and it lhas beea written by Dr. Bernard C ...