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Black Republic of Letters

"Results and Wishes of the Congress"

Translation:

The congress addresses its profound recognition to the powers, and expresses its wish that the last remaining conditions be fulfilled without delay.
The anti-slavery campaign is divided into national committees morally united in the pursuit of a common goal.
The congress counts on peaceful methods, especially on the moral action of missionaries, to uplift the Blacks.
The national committees will do a useful thing by provoking, where circumstances allow, the private devotion and support of volunteers.
The congress expresses the wish that the Holy Father who gloriously called for the liberty of the disinherited children of the human family, and who so generously contributed to the first expenses of the campaign, agrees to an annual inquest into the needs of the anti-slavery campaign.
The congress expresses the wish that measures will be taken to prevent the abuses in the recruitment of free workers and to safeguard the liberty of the Blacks.
The congress calls the attention of all the powers to the dangers that the development of certain African Muslim sects present to civilization.
It is deniable that every national anti-slavery committee should periodically produce an anti-slavery bulletin.
The congress expresses its recognition of the benefactor who contributed a prize of 20,000 francs destined to reward the best popular work concerning the abolition of slavery. It decides that every national committee will examine the manuscripts submitted by authors from their country, select the manuscripts that seem most worthy to obtain the proposed prize, and name a delegate who will come together with the other members to the Institute of France to form the jury charged with handing out the prizes
The congress expresses the wish that the support sent to missionaries should be exempt from customs duties.
The congress, believing that it is eminently useful that the delegates of national committees should come together again to exchange their views, decides that another anti-slavery congress will take place within two years.

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