Those That Were Bound Suaveny TumovcH THe Aces By Lieut,- General Sir George MacMunn. X.c.s X51, D50. With a Foreword by Lady "Simon. Nicholson & Watson, London. 12/6.
Sir George MacMunn has written a brief though interesting history of slavery right down to the present day. "Though it occupies some 279 pages, it is Still brief, because of the dimensions of the subject dealt with and the fact that slavery in one form or another has been known from time immemorial, Probably the most interesting section of the history of slavery has been dealt with in the smallest portion of the book, but what is of the most importance is the section of the subject after it passes the beginning of the last century, namely, that portion of the volume which deals with West African slavery and its aftermath, But before leaving the first portion of the book, which is a very rapid survey from the time when Semiramis indulged in her surgical experiments on slaves to the time when a Frenchwoman, as an odalisque in the Turkish court, had a similar influence upon the fortunes of Napoleon Bonaparte, it is clear from the author's discussion that if Bopaparte had behaved better towards Josephine, the Sultan o; Turkey would never have made peace with Russia, thereby liberating considerable forces of the latter country to deal with Napoleon on his retreat from Moscow. This most interesting passage is as follows Richmond fell Lee surrendere n States e enn ed powder, ard the war was over.
days later Lincoln feil to the the curse on this great white people, even to the death of tne liberator, following that of so many w-countrymen. With it went al vestige of illegal slave trade to Cuba "and elsewhere. Siaveiy in the Amer-leas was ended, save in the Spanish islands, and there too its extinction was nearly ripe.
The aftermath of the crime of hundred years earlier, the establish: ment of millions of a race capa great advancement that canna assimilated, amid a white Americ Yet to dree its weird.
The loss to the Siate; those million fathers, and the conse. quent admission of races whose phy-nol yet fathomed, due to the war. is yet to see. is another which the result
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