AND STILL THERE ARE SLAVES.
Lady (John) Simon, in ;i speech reported in the “Hull News,” said that “there was a, widespread idea that slavery no longer existed, hut they knew that there were at least four million slaves, and they also knew that in nineteen countries of the world slavery continued to exist. A slave, they should remember; was the absolute property of another man, to do what he would with, to take away from his home, and to treat him as
Ibadly as he liked. In China there were some two million slaves, and in Abyssinia there were two million more. Jin Abyssinia slavery was still to be seen in all its orude, cruel and fiendish honor. Men wero driven in chains, with women and children trying to keep up with them, some falling out to be left to die of thirst. The slave traffic was to he divided into three classes—the slave raider, the slave trader, and the slave owner. If the traffic were to bo stopped, they would have to start with the slave owner, for without him the slave traders and raiders would have no use for the slaves. Public opinion was all powerful, and, when sufficiently aroused, there would he an end of this horrible crime.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1928, Page 1
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212AND STILL THERE ARE SLAVES. Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1928, Page 1
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