SLAVES IN EAST AFRICA.
Abolition in October. (Beceived 8.35 a-m.) LONDON, July 9. In tie House of Commons, the UnderSecretary for the Colonies (Mr. Winston Churchill) stated that the legal status of slavery would be abolished at Mom-bassa-and in the East African Protectorate in October, and Parliament would be asked to vote compensation to those f safferrng by the change.
[On the ten-mile coast strip of the East _trk_ Protectorate (extending from the Tjmba to the Juba River, and inland as far as the borders of Uganda) domestic davery is legal, bnt is semi-officially described as " practically extinct." No one bom—ter August 1, IS9O, can be a slave, -and fie purchase of slaves is prohibited. In f_ rest of the Protectorate slavery is B__iste_t.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 163, 10 July 1907, Page 5
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