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Extracting palm kernels, picking kola nuts, pressing out palm oil and tending ginger plants are still the toilsome daily occupations of some 200,000 slaves who were legally made free, last week, in the British protectorate of Sierra Leone, West Africa...
Apathetic to mere law, the onetime slaves were glad to continue toiling for their former masters, last week, because Sierra Leone is so impoverished and undeveloped that many a free man cannot earn a slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...
...slaves were freed, chiefly due to parlor agitation in London, by decree of the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone, an appointive body chairmaned by the British Governor and containing a minority of native chiefs. The anti-slavery decree allows no compensation to onetime slave owners, gives to each freed slave the right to claim a plot of the now too plenteous waste Government land...
...week danced through Harlem, shouting, in purple clothes and fine fettle (see p. 29), other Negroes held a less riotous convention elsewhere in Harlem. These were the members of the fourth Pan-African Congress, who had gathered from the U. S., the West Indies, Germany, Japan, India, South America, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, to discuss racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde...
...sailing date of the Harvard detachment has been shifted from June 18, as originally announced, to June 25, when the group including the University representatives will leave New York on the S. S. "Sierra Vantana". Landing in France, the tourists will open their three months itinerary, with special attention to such university centers as Paris, Lyons and Brussels. Arrangements have been made by students of the European institutions to provide for the entertainment of the American visitors. Beside the customary sightseeing rounds, which are to be supervised by the students, a comprehensive program of social events will be arranged...