is ever
a)
Peru, & others - and the French right of shipping any where involves this -
to be anything else than slave traffic in disguise, both stipulations are essential. Nothing else can prevent a virtual state of Slavery perfectly undistinguishable from that so recently prevailing in the United States of America. & in Brazil, Peru & elsewhere, to this day.
a
state
Ihad at the time, as I have now, this strong Conviction. And until the correspondence with the Colonial Author - 4 Emigration Commission enlightened me, it could hardly have " entered my mind that stipulations which Holl's Govt. had on two successive occasions insisted upon, in 1860 & 1861, as essential, in
Convention with the French for authorizing a precisely similar?
linization
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Emigration of natives from India to French Colonies, should be declared unacceptable & inadmissibe
4 I allude to the Convention betwee Gt Britain & France relative to the emigration of labourers from India to the Colony of Xéunion, signed at Paris on the 25th of July In this it is provided by the
1860
8th Art: that "the contracts shall "make stipulation for :
"
" 1 . The duration of the engagement, "at the expirations of which the the igrant shall receive, a return_ " passage to India, at the expense " of the French Govt, and the terms " on which it shall be competent " to him to renounce) his
his righth
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" a
free return pass a go
Art. IX. 1. "The duration of the immigrants
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Engagement shall not be more
year
·
than
" 4. If he consents to contract