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... FILM: Pirate Prince James Hazeldine. Thandie Newton, Rudolph Walker. Swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean in the days of slavery. FILM: Superman II (1980, Adventure) Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Valerie Perrine ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1991
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1310 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... numerous bright ideas to raise money for their unit. Their latest effort was a Roman slave auction where couples were sold into slavery for four hours doing odd jobs for their owners. The result of their bondage raised nearly f2OO. In a more. serious vein the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1992
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 336 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Gaffes Wednesday, September 1, 1993

... opinion. If they did not we should all, at some time, have cause to complain. Every reforming movement, therefore, from anti-slavery onwards, has had to struggle to make its voice heard by organising itself. None has been successful as a result of leaving ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1993
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 280 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

'letters

... trade. Might it not be relevant to remember that a chap called Wilberforce was the driving force behind the moves to abolish slavery, which was duly achieved. That, in my opinion, was the apology. Times have changed and no sense of guilt for the remote actions ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1997
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 795 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Friends share

... starting up Oxfam and the Child Poverty Action group. Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, was a Quaker; and the abolition of slavery movement was heavily supported by Friends. A s one would expect, t'Wthere is no great drama involved in becoming a Quaker ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1997
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1180 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Labour slate MP Save our over hunting bill shops bid FARNHAM Royal LABOUR party members have attacked the ..

... response is a typ- out-of-town supermarical Conservative approach to progressive reform kets. through the ages - abolition of slavery, female emanci- The meeting will be pation, etc. held on November 24 at Hunting with dogs is a cruel sport and an inefficient ...

Published: Wednesday 12 November 1997
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 195 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

BEADERS'letters WRITE TO: The Editor, Buckinghamshire Advertiser Series, The Vale, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks SL9 ..

... cost the lives and liberty of thousands of men and women. The right to life protected by law, the prohibition of torture and slavery, the right to liberty and security. Each article has been hard won and we can be justly proud of such a document. However ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1997
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1264 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Stars back third world debt fight

... charity Mohammad Ali at a won the Freddie ceremony to lay flow- Mercury Award. ers at a monument to Last May Mr Reid, anti-slavery pioneers from Holmer Green, in London. handed over a petition Ali, who changed with more than one his name from Cassius million ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1999
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LONDON THEATRE

... Theatre, Co►tesloe, SEI: The Darker Face of the Earth, a poetic re-working of Oedipus set in the Deep South in the era of slavery. The characters behave like people rather than symbols, Particularly Saskia Reeves as the wilful Amalie. Tickets £lB - £2O ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1999
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 43 | Tags: none