. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. f their liberties, and divided thecountry into the three presidencies of Bengal, Madrasand Bombay. The Dutch and Danish interests weretransferred to England,—that of Denmark in 1854 bypurchase, so that now England with its queen as Em-press is left in undisputed possession. In the presentpopulation of India, the Europeans number one toevery 3,500 natives. The number of native Christ-ians in India is about 600,000. VII, ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. A British society for the suppression of the sl
. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. f their liberties, and divided thecountry into the three presidencies of Bengal, Madrasand Bombay. The Dutch and Danish interests weretransferred to England,—that of Denmark in 1854 bypurchase, so that now England with its queen as Em-press is left in undisputed possession. In the presentpopulation of India, the Europeans number one toevery 3,500 natives. The number of native Christ-ians in India is about 600,000. VII, ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. A British society for the suppression of the slavetrade was organized by Dillwyn, Granville Sharpe,and Thos. Clarkson, in 1787. Wilberforce gave themhis powerful help as a member of the bill passed and received the royal assent March25, 1807. The next step was taken, when Wilberforcepresented a petition for the suppression of slaveryto the Commons, in 1823. It failed. Mr. Broughamtook the lead in 1830, and in May, 1833, a bill pro-viding for the total but graded emancipation passedboth Houses and received the royal assent August 2,. ^^^tLy. NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. 353 1833. The bill went into effect August I, 1834; butan apprenticeship system was engrafted upon thesystem, so that the last traces of slavery were noteffaced from all the British territories till August i,1838. How much more wisely this was accomplishedthan in the United States, where thirty years later itsabolition cost a million of lives on both sides and asum twenty-six times greater. It cost England $ioo,-000,000; by the war, in five years the United Statesadded to their public debt the enormous sum of$2,682,558,051. In 1864, by the ukase of Czar Alex-ander, 50,000,000 Russian serfs were liberated or be-came free men. And so, it has become the aim ofour Christian civilization to abolish all forms of invol-untary servitude except for crimes and work is not yet complete. Slavery still exists insome form or other
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