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> at Hong Kong because of certain
> conditions prevailing at Hong Kong which were described in the
> enclosures in his despatch. Mr. Labouchere, the Secretary of State for
> the Colonies at the time, replied to the Governor's representations
> in the following language: "The Colonial Government has not, I think,
> attached sufficient weight to the very grave fact that in a British
> Colony large numbers of women should be held in practical slavery for
> the purposes of prostitution, and allowed in some cases to perish
> miserably of disease in the prosecution of their employment, and for
> the gain of those to whom they suppose themselves to belong. A class
> of persons who by no choice of their own are subjected to such
> treatment have an urgent claim on the active protection of
> Government."
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> Hong Kong, the British colony, had existed but fourteen years when
> this was written. Only a handful of fishermen and cottagers were on
> the island before the British occupation. Its Chinese population had
> come from a country where, as we have seen, laws against the buying
> and selling, 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:
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> 1st, That it is a "grave fact that" at Hong Kong "large numbers of
> women" are "held in practical slavery."
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> 2nd, That this slavery is "for the gain of those to whom they
> suppose themselves to belong."
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> 3rd, That it is so cruel that "in some cases" they "perish
> miserably ... in the prosecution of their employment."
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