Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — Slaves In Scotland. [ARTICLE]

Slaves In Scotland.

Were there once slaves in Scotland: A volumes on Scottish industrial and social history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has some passages on the subject: < “It shocks us very much to learn that the men, and even women, who worked in the coaf“mines at that time —1. e., the eighteenth century—in Scotland still continued to be, as of old, little better than slaves. By a law passed by the Scottish parliament in IGOG every man who once went to work In a coal mine was bound to labor in it all his life as a “necessary servant” If he tried to run away ha was tried and punished as a thief. If the land was sold on which the coal pit stood in which he worked he was sold with it like any of the machinery of the pit. In 1775 an act of parliament was passed which set free most of the pit workers, but It was not* till the cud sf the century that this form of slavery was quite abolished."