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Their lox is much happier than it would have been in their homes if they had been allowed to live They are educated. The boys are
freemen placed out in life.
The girls
are
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given in marriage
and become as
fre
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am
other Chinese women. If there
duties are not
fulfilled by the purchaser, or if the children are ill used, the parents have their remedy. In pach the custom is singularly humane and benevolent and I doubt
the hardest straining it could he brought under the British Antislavery
Whether by
Dr Eitel describer what slavery is in Chim. It appears the of a mild character but to be quite distimal from this practice of adephros buying & selling children for adoptions and so called domestic Servitude.
It is remashable that
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the same Chinese who in November 1878 petitioned to be formed into a society for the supprepions of the kidnapping and of the buying selling of females for prostitution are the first to protect, in October 1879, against Sir John Smale's confusion of
and
the other practice with slavery.
SW John Smale refers
to a Proclamation of 1871 Guaranteeing the free enjoy.... own customs to the of their Chière Inhabitants of the Colony. In reply to this he
were
arques (1) that this cussour is not a customs of the Chemiese on the maincon (2) that at the date of ther Proclamation the only Chinese Inhabilnie. a few fishermen amongol whom the custom certaing did not prevai (3) that the Proclamationis of no
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