SLAVERY IN PHILIPPINES.
CHILDREN SOLD ABROAD.
TRAFFIC WITH CHINA.
By Telegraph—-Press Association— Copyright.
; ;Washington, August 25. > According to the reports of a special investigating '.-. commissioner, slavery still exists throughout the Philippines. Even Manila is not free from the system.'.-:; • ' , '.'■'', The Filipinos -in many parts of the island capture children and sell them as slaves to China and elsewhere. "';";■' - ' Even: members of. ■ the' House of Assembly maintain peonage, or the system of holding debtors in a form of qualified servitude ' in order '■ to work off debts, on their own: farms.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 9
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89SLAVERY IN PHILIPPINES. New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 9
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