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Document from the inter-ministerial correspondence on the topic of prohibiting the slave trade
(Corinth, 21 February 1822)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 14, no 38 [pp. 33-34] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE CHIEF SECRETARY of State in a document addressed to the Minister of Justice states very clearly that it is prohibited to buy or sell «people of both sexes and of any nation». Further- more, people who were bought for money are to be immediately set free and to become unapproach- able by their masters.
Already in the Provisional Constitution of Greece
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(1822), the constitutional provision pertaining to equality and individual freedom, in combination with more specific regulations about the protec- tion of property, honour and safety of the Greeks, the prohibition of arrest and punishment by im- prisonment without warrant, as well as the abol- ishment of tortures, expelled the system of slav- ery from the new Greek state, in an era when this constituted a normality in many western states.
Preliminary order of the Legislative to the Executive about the temporary conversion of small houses into hospitals (Corinth, 18 March 1822)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 1, no 89 [p. 89] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
GIVEN THAT IT IS A «CHRISTIAN» AND «PHILANTHROPIC» WORK to take care of the unfortunate, and especially when they are ill, the Vice-President of the Legislative, Sotirios Charalambis, proposes to the Executive
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the rough and ready construction of a house and adjacent small houses, in order to be used as hos- pital, with a junior doctor in charge, for the care of the patients.
Document of the Executive about converting coffee houses into workplaces (Tripolis, 20 June 1823)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 10, no 264 [p. 172] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
BECAUSE COFFEE SHOPS are «refuges of idleness», while in the present circumstances the entire nation ought to be in motion against the enemy, the Executive assigns to the Ministry of
Internal Affairs, which performs also the duties of the Police, to take care of converting certain coffee shops into workplaces of useful crafts, defining at the same time the penalties for the offenders.
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