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Progress Of Emancipation

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Day
24
Month
April
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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■"The United States come Jast." We gather the foilowing recent items of inlelügejice ïrom forrfjjn nevvspapers: - Emanapntor. 1 . Tüifis. Aóvices from Tunis, to December 20th, published by the Journal dvs Débals, nunounce that the Bey had, of hia oWn free 31, proclaimed the freedom of tlie diildrcn of skves hereafter born in the regency. A ïortuitous cireuïnstance led to the u dopt ion of that eieaeure. A black family, doomcd to be Bold separateïy, had taken refwge in the house of M. de Lagnu, tire coTisuUgeneral f Franco, nd claimod his protection. The rext iiicrning, RI. de Lngau waited on tlie Bey, nnd his highness was so moved by the painful picture which the consul drew, of the Aretchrd fate Xvhich exvaited that family. that, after interrogating Vhe father and mother, he ordered his minister lo purchase tliem and treat them with the greatest kindiess, und tlien, turning to their cliild, he told hiln tlint he was free, andsolemnly decJared that II tlie chiltlren xvho should hereafter be born n the re,gency, should be free. Thia decisión was immediately promulgated,.and was to be striclly executed.A letter of Afr. Lusco, dated at Sax, November 25, eays; "A carava of tnany slaves nrrived on the frontiers of Ihe ftingdtm of Tunis a few days ngo, wben mmediately the shiekhs of those dislricts presentcd themselves to the chiefs of the caravan, nnd in the rmtnL of the Bey, informed them, that, as soon as ihey paased the frontiers with slnves npon the territories of the Bey, those sla vt3 Were free, ond the masters hnd no control or right over them. The chief of ihe caravan, sceing that ihe Bey's ordera were precise nnd absolute, relired forthwith. ít is a grcat pity that the j ordinances of many Chriátiiin prjbu es nnd govcmments are not equally well enfurced."' 2. SrRiA. Extract of a Ictler from Mr. VVood, Her Britannic Mnjesty's Consul, at Damascus, dated 6tfa October, 1842:"Tíie Anglo-Maltese Anti-Slavery Association will learn, perhnps, with some satisfaction, that I liad íiot on)y succeeded in persuading some of ihe Chriatian sccts and Hebrews, resident at Daniascus, to libérate the slaves in their possession, but ihatlhe foreign consuls havo readily followed my suggestion, and have decreed the etnancipation of thoso that werc possessed by their respective subjects nnd proteges." S. Brazil. A letter from Rio Janeiro, in the London Anti-S Ja very Reporter, December 14, sa j's: "There is a great and increasing1 desire on the part oftnany native Brazilians for the suppresKion of the slave-trade. Some are actuated by their fears of future insurreclion; others by economical motives, feeling that the existence of the inslitution of slavery, is the greatest obstado to the social and political improvement of their country; and a third class, composed principally of the vont',) who have been educated in the principies of enlightened freedom, by senlitnents of hunanity. A)l these classes, h o wever, are thwruted by tlio sordid self-interest of the slavetraders, who, huving as I have said above, woallh on their eide, are able to carry things their own woy, ín every department of the State."

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Signal of Liberty
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