RISING OF SLAVES AT RIO.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1769, 17 February 1888, Page 3

RISING OF SLAVES AT RIO.

From Rio c)e Jtueiro inform »ti m him I heun ec^ip^d '>f a yp»>» f r Hit)g of •'»» <i n tbp plan atiors n t^evi Inltv f Ht. Pa In. and the r c»fl o. With t c troops ana h< polioe. l '!■»'* niHvea no tw > pia nation* •□ the mmloiptlity struck w^.rk and, s» 2 np all hOiflea and males <hey Coald bud. m*de • tf »1 h the*" wives and children, Iha tea policemen wh wets stationed hi St. Paulo went m pursuit, bat the negroes Aeizad and disarmed them, atter wards •tripping them caked and thrashing them A.s the slaves made for tin forest their ranks became thicker, as they ware joined by aU the slave* on the plantations en route. Fifty policemen, well Armed. WOIU Bdut after triu runaways, hat af er a1 no langj of shot 1 , i« which one man *a< killed, had t>» beat a r»pid retreat. T;i y tb U'ned tn Ara*ro demora laed, an •vi n t iuterf>re with aroiter bmci if slaves wao marohnd through th« town \*n uting »• Hur*b for fren'onu! We prefer death to recapture " The pUut'rs were m great fair, at.d thn troops were 8 »ted to bo onw ' m« -o hunt, the shves