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SLAVERY

... SLAVERY Cpl. Bird, of the 2nd Loval Korth Lancs. Regiment, with years' service in the Regular Army, and a former cotton spinner and manual worker, said: “I found I was well suited to the type of slave work I had to perform. We worked on branch line, running ...

Published: Tuesday 03 April 1945
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SLAVERY

... SLAVERY. Replying Eajl Winterton, Mr. Henderson said special steps had been taken in recent months to prevent tho shipping of slaves from the African to the Asiatic Coast of the Red hea Two warships regularly patrolled the boa. could not commit himself ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SLAVERY

... SLAVERY This can scarcely be termed a free conn, try. when people cringe and assume ~ttitude of subservience while paying ready money for edibles partaken of on the spot. If all waiters realised their Royal attriuhtes. and the wonderful superhuman reverence ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1913
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SLAVERY

... ” Even if this be true, it proves nothing except that slavery paralyses its victims. Rarely the world’s history have the oppressed risen unless st.mulated by outeide , sympathisers. And if'slavery not good per se. it not good for women, whatever many ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1896
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 982 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SLAVERY

... SLAVERY. Mr. Mandcr asked whether the Foreign Secretary intended to furnish the League of Nations with the information the possession of the Government respecting slavery, in accordance with the resolution passed by the Eleventh Assembly of the League ...

Published: Wednesday 12 November 1930
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOT SLAVERY

... NOT SLAVERY Mr. Sorensen; Do they take their babies down afterwards? Mr. McGovern (1.L.P.. Shettlestonl: Is there any intention of abolishing this abominable form of slavery? Mr. Amery: I demur to the word slavery because the work in the mines is entirely ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1945
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ON SLAVERY

... N SLAVERY Good kings are slaves and their people are free —Marie Leszzinski. How eat would be our per if our slaves began to number us. — Seneca. A date with the Wakes BURN Morecambe and Blac | figure ina Lancashire W Ss programme ‘in the North Service ...

Published: Friday 30 July 1954
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 603 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Slavery

... Slavery. The trade in negro slaves began in the reign of Elizabeth. John Hawkins was the first Englishman to buy slaves in Africa and, take them to the West Indies. So great did the trade become that between 1750 and 1760 no less than 70,000 slaves were ...

Published: Monday 19 January 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DESERT SLAVERY

... DESERT SLAVERY Ex-Legionaries Freed After Years of Captivity TANGIER, Saturday. Members of colony of captive Legionaries who have laboured under Arab taskmasters in the burning heat the desert, and were forgotten by the world for many years, are now ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1933
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CHINESE “SLAVERY ”

... CHINESE “SLAVERY The Governmeat and their supporters are not likely to hear the last.of the New Hebrides labour ordinance. It when closely examined, found to form of slavery for men, women, and children. And this is the production' a Government v.lio ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1907
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SLAVERY IN AFRICA

... SLAVERY AFRICA. LONDON PRESS OPINIONS. The Tiraee,” referring to the meeting held yesterday further the abolition of the slave trade in Africa, states that there can be no two opinions amongst Englishman Co the incompatibility of slavery and British rule ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1895
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SLAVERY IN TURKEY

... SLAVERY IN TURKEY. Some details are given in a letter from C mstantinople with regard to the Turkish slave trade. The hundreds of girls who form part of the harem are, the writer avers, mostly Circassian slaves. The household of every Turk who is at all ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1879
Newspaper: Preston Pilot
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1027 | Page: 3 | Tags: none