SLAVERY.
ABOLITION IN SIERRA LEONE. (by cable—press association—copyright.) (Sydney "Sun" Service.) (Received September 21st, 7 p.m^) LONDON, September 20. A dispatch to the "Daily Mail" from Sierra Leone says the Legislative Council, following a cabled request from the Colonial Office, holds a special, session on Thursday to abolish slavery throughout the Protectorate from January Ist, 1928. The new ordinance will free 300,000 slaves.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19112, 22 September 1927, Page 13
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