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detaining and kidnaping human beings were not unfamiliar.
Only eleven years had elapsed since the Queen's proclamation against
slavery in that colony had been published to its inhabitants, and yet,
during that time, slavery had so advanced at Hong Kong, against
both Chinese and British law, as to receive this recognition and
acknowledgment on the part of the Secretary of State at London:

    1st, That it is a "grave fact that" at Hong Kong "large numbers of
    women" are "held in practical slavery."

    2nd, That this slavery is "for the gain of those to whom they
    suppose themselves to belong."

    3rd, That it is so cruel that "in some cases" they "perish
    miserably ... in the prosecution of their employment."

    4th, That it is "by no choice of their own" that they prosecute
    their employment, and "are subjected to such treatment."

    5th, That they have "an urgent claim upon the active protection of
    Government."

    6th, That the service to which these slaves are doomed, through
    "no choice of their own," is the most degraded to which a slave
    could possibly be reduced, i.e., "prostitution."

When Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," she sounded
the note of doom for slavery in the United States. After that, slavery
became intolerable. Many have remarked on the fact that the book
should have so stirred the conscience of the Christian world, when
there are depicted in it so many even engaging features and admirable
persons, woven into the story of wrong. Her


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