Slavery in New South Wales
Slavery in New South Wales.—The Voice prints a letter from Henry Stuart, of North Sydney, New South Wales, saying that slavery practically exists in Queensland and New South Wales. "The black labor traffic," he declares, "means nothing short of kidnapping and compulsory slavery. The wretched blacks are, from well-authenticated evidence, decoyed on board the so-called labor vessels, or if they are not decoyed they are kidnapped and carried off by force. On arriving at the northern Queensland ports the unfortunate islanders are marched up country to the sugar plantations, overseers for the planters keeping them together, and on arrival at the plantations the poor creatures work from sunrise to sunset in the cane, for the paltry sum of $60 a year and 'keep,' the keep consisting of coffee, molasses, and rice, with occasionally an old sheep thrown in for a change or a treat." It is said many times that slavery erelong will be banished from the earth, but it is suppressed in one form to spring up in another. So it will be till the end; for bondman and freeman will exist together then. See Rev. 6:15-17.