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THE VISITATION OP GOD

... as much above mere property as they are now below it. talk of West India slavery, and pray arid preach and petition that it may be abolished; but pass without notice worse slavery at home, merely because the frequency of its occurrence makes familiar with ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 533 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SLAVE TRADE.—SURREY MEETING

... held at the Spread Ragle Inn, Epsom, of the members the Surrey Anti-Slavery Society, for the purpose of taking into consideration a petition to both houses of Parliament against slavery the British Colonies. At one o'clock the chair was taken by 11. Diummoud ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SURREY ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

... SURREY ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3. The Annual Anti-Slavery Meeting was held last week at Epsom. The purpose of, arid the expressions adopted at, that meeting do honour to the county of Surrey. The execrable traffic in human flesh ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 762 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.—Tuesday

... ; and Lord Mansfield declared that the air of England was too pure for slavery, and that Somerset being within the kingdom of England, was no longer slave. Lord M. added, slavery was so odious, that could not exist without a positive law ; but, without ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SLAVERY

... SLAVERY. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER K>, all the stigmas that fasten upon the commercial character this country, stain its honour, and refuse shaken olf, the most foul antl inveterate the slavery in which the natives of Africa are kept in our West India Colonies ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1360 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TRIUMPH OF BRITISH ARMS.—DESTRUCTION OF THE TURKISH AND EGYPTIAN FLEETS

... the deep, and swept from the face heaven a force, whose avowed object it was to impose chains and the lasting hlig'nt of slavery upon nation draggling to he free upon ' people to whose ancestors we are indebted for all those arts which impart a charm ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4640 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.—Wednesday

... that operated a fraud on the minds the slaves, who, having been deceived, must be held to Have returned compulsorily into slavery. The slave brace, it was said, returned voluntarily, and great we,ght was laid on that circumstance ; there was, therefore ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CONVICTS SULLIVAN AND BUSHELL

... allowance. The house in London failed, and as his resources Lisbon failed with it, and he could not endure the comparative slavery of a mere clerkship ; he left the latter pla:e at the age of fifteen, and passed over to Ireland, where he lived for some ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1329 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GREECE

... —they were not merely the most civilized, they were almost the only civilized people on the face of the earth. Conquest and slavery altered their character, and as their successive conquerors were each more barbarous and cruel than the one that preceded ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1659 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ORIGINAL POETRY. STANZAS ON THK VICTORY OF NAVARIN Aon,. Authored Wordier Field. , d ber coasts from day t *

... wreck of social joys and waste of life * ' Had been endured hanle-s {'~,,. ;„'„„• - And the bold A Must cud in blood, in slavery, and tea,?? They turn'd where Christian squadrons' idly laid On the calm seas impatient delay • Burning to lend their sufferint> ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 626 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MISCELLANY

... course of years the question put so broadly England as it now . 0 the bosom of every Frenchman,- Will youlivtinab solute slavery, or be at once free peop c ViLLtLE. —This Minister has made no secret of his resolution to remain place as long as he can ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1634 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SLAVERY IN SCHOOLS

... SLAVERY SCHOOLS. A gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge, who last summer accepted the situation of classical and mathematical student, few miles from London, thus describes the dreadful trade of a school-assistant. He says, I found that I was looked ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 4 | Tags: none