| Show 61 slavery ry t in sim siam slavery has been abolished in siam in in name says a writer in the contemporary review but it can never be abolished in fact for the slaves have no means of supporting themselves outside their masters houses every member of the siamese upper cla classes e s can fetter his servants or throw them e m into prison without any kind of trial or permission being bein necessary one morning mornin I 1 went to call upon one of the ablest ad nd most enlightened of the ministers a man who has been to europe and who once actually got into serious trouble for trying to inaugurate a sort of womans comans rights 1 movement iu siam I 1 made my way by mistake into a part of his grounds where visitors were not exported and I 1 found a slave fastened down to the round ground a in art an ing onions kind of pillory in w which high he could not move lia hand nd or foot while another slave tortured him with severe strokes of a bamboo rod at the word of a member of the family in 0 order to force him to confess to some ku deed |
