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seek to employ force. " (1)
In 11oveuzbor 18e2 an anti-slavery meeting was hold
which urged the abolition of the legal etutun of slavery
in Egypt. C2?
An additional argument was that "the
commercinl. intcro8tim of England and of Europe have long
suffered from tho obstruction to legitimate commerce
causod by the ulavo trade. " (3)
Basic to anti-slavery
policy wan the belief that legitimate commerce won the
beat way to counteract the trade in human beings. The
A. S. S. therefore could not avoid being concerned with
commercial schemes. It wan anxious in 1882, for example
that the Government should renew the subsidy to the
East African service of the British Imperial Stoam
! Iavigmtion Company run by William Mackinnon.
presaged the future closer connection between the A,
and Mackinnon'a African nahomee.
(4)
Thin
. &.
The A, L, S, was also interested in 1882 in a plan
to aonutruct a Sudan railwa7 from Suakin oZ the 1od Eiaa
coact to Derber on tho eile., The originator of the plan
(1) tbid, Allen to a correspondent, 21at November 1883.
(2) E2 1ßf lünuten of riootinr; hold let Daconber 1882.
(3) I d,
(4) bide