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On Jan 24, 1:58 am, Roberto Conde <mamuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> took possession its inhabitants
> were limited to "a few fishermen and cottagers."
>
> The Tankas helped the British in many ways in waging these wars, and
> when peace was established went to live with them on the island. This
> action on the part of these "river people" is significant as showing
> as much or more attachment to the foreigner than to the other classes
> of Chinese. There seems always to be less conscience in wronging
> an alien people than in injuring a people to whom one is closely
> attached, and this sense of estrangement from other Chinese may
> account to some extent for the facility with which this aboriginal
> people engaged, a little later, in the trade in women and girls
> brought from the mainland to meet the demands of profligate
> foreigners.
>
> Sir Charles Elliott, Governor of Hong Kong, wishing to attract Chinese
> immigration to the island, issued, on February 1st and 2nd, 1841, two
> proclamations in the name of the Queen, to the effect that there would
> be no interference with the free exercise on the part of the Chinese
> of their religious rites, ceremonies and social customs, "pending Her
> Majesty's pleasure."
>
> Following the custom of all Oriental people, to whom marriage is a
> trade in the persons of women, when the Tankas saw that the foreigners
> had come to that distant part almost universally without wife or
> family, they offered to sell them women and girls, and the British
> seem to have purchased them at first, but afterwards they modified the
> practice to merely paying a monthly stipend. All slavery throughout
> British possessions had been prohibited only a few years before the
> settlement of Hong Kong, in 1833, when 20,000,000 pounds had been
> distributed by England as a boon to slave-holders.
>
> Hong Kong's first Legislative Council was held in 1844, and its first
> ordinance was an anti-slavery measure in the form of an attempt to
> define the law relating to slavery. It was a long process in those
> days for the Co