in the trade
But in popping sentence
in two cases of this kind six John Smale has taken the opportunity
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slavery, and
to stigmatire therefore
as contrary to British law, the practice of baging and selling male and female children for adoption and domestic servitude.
In the Chinese petition
of October 1879 this practice is
stated to be as Slavery
widely removed from.
as heaven from earth, This veen is daborated in Dr Extel's memorandum.
In anticipation probably
i he
of the objection that this Chimène pracus. is a domestic institution, Sir John Smale says that slavery. West Inches and in the United States was a domestic institution. But it was never domestic in the sense, in which this Chinese institution
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is domestic. The acquisition by violence of the persons of men
and as in
of a foreign race the african Slave Trade, and
them in slavery from the holding of them in generation to generation the West Indies and the United States, was a very
different thing
from this practice of the Chemise inter se
This Chimen
practice appears to be forme apon the most sacred religion obligations and upon the recepities the poor. The greatest sin is of
to have no descendants. On the frequen other hand the poor are under strong temptation to destroy their children
This Chemise.
practice provides the remedy. childless,
The well to do, who are want to buy. The poor, who we Starving
I are ready to sell. The transaction is perfectly oper The children are well treated.