SIERRA LEONE SLAVES.
Ordinance Passed Removing Legal Sanction. EFFECTIVE FSOM JANXJAET. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, September 23. As was anticipated, the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone yesterday unanimously passed an ordinance removing, as from January next, the last vestige of legal sanction to slavery in the Protectorate. The ordinance does not apply to the colony of Sierra Leone, where there are no slaves, and, until tlie recent Supreme Court decision revealed that escaped slaves could be recaptured in the Protectorate, it was believed that the legislation of last year had eliminated it from its laws, even in the modified form of domestic servitude, which is still persisted in. In a communication from the British Government to the League Council, it was stated that the English naval forces in the Red Sea had received special instructions to do their utmost to check the slave trade in those waters.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 9
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150SIERRA LEONE SLAVES. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 9
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