PORTUGUESE PLANTATIONS.
■ ■ : ALLEGATIONS OF SLAVERY DENIED. - The. Portuguese newspapers are greatly incensed against the Socioty for tho Protection of Aborigines, which, at a meeting held in London, accused Portugal of practising slavery and of cruelty to natives; making theso allegations tho basis of a propaganda for tho boycott of Portuguoso cocoa. It is declared in reply that slavery is unnecessary, as Angola possesses a population of fifteen millions, and the natives are quito willing to accept contracts either for the Rand or for tho cocoa plantations of Sao Thome. In tho latter case they earn considerably more than the'workers iu many agricultural districts of Portugal itself, where tho wages rango from .sixpence 'to ono shilling a day. One of tho principal revenues of tho country is the ex'port of cocoa and rubber, to the value annually -of about. two millions sterling, the principal customers boing England and Germany. Tho export duty paid in gold keeps iip tho exchange, and it will readily be seen that a boycott of such goods would be"ruinous to tho interests of Portugal.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 205, 23 May 1908, Page 10
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177PORTUGUESE PLANTATIONS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 205, 23 May 1908, Page 10
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