RUGBY, September 23. " , As was anticipated, the Legislative l " Council of Sierra Leone yesterday tlaanunouslr passed an ordinance re■CJnoring as from January next the last P "S)tige of legal sanction to slavery in , ««.Protectorate. The ordinance does not apply to the *iSfW oi Sierra Leone, where there "#Uno slaves, and until the'recent Supreme Court decision revealed that esSged slaves could be recaptured in the ■"£2 l orate > nas believed that the r legislation of last year had eliminated "Om its laws even the modified form of °°«iestic servitude which still perjured. * - -
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19115, 26 September 1927, Page 9
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