Another Case for Sherlock Sandy

Ahem... so I received this mouse mail... er... almost a month ago! And someone didn't get around to blogging about it. Or rather, my sekrebeary didn't! Anyhow... it's mouse mail!!!

With a lot of cool stickers and stamps.

You could think this letter was sent from Saint-Roch, Paris in 1926...

But it wasn't!

It's one of Beanie Mouse's creations....

Which means lots of stickers and stamps!

And it's a Greeting Card from the found-art blog... so went and listed this one as "found"!

Inside, we have a beary creative card with a big "g" on it.

It's so simple and yet so cool...

On top of a page of a book about Roman history... all about Trajan and Cappadocia and stuff...

So neat!

And... we have the prize from the previous clue... which was about Brexit...

That was a tough one as I recall...

See... Brexit coin!!

Thanks Moriarty Beanie!!

And there's another card in here...

By a painter named Pierre Bonnard... this painting (the original) is held in the Minneapolis Institute of Art!!

I know a couple of little bears who live in Minnesota... wonder if they've seen that painting.

Alright... here's the clue:

This coin salutes an Act of Parliament,

that ended a view that was very intolerant (nice rhyme there).

It concluded a business of cross-ocean trade,

of homosapiens: that's now been put paid (that means it's over),

What Act of Parliament? And Year?

Huh... well the first part is easy... the Abolition of Slavery!

As for the year... my first guess was 1833... and the Abolition of Slavery in the British colonies but... nope... that was the abolition of slavery...

The real answer is the Abolition of the Slave Trade! Which happened in 1807...

In 1807, the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade received Royal Assent and became a law throughout the British Empire. It was a result of a long Parliamentary campaign by an alliance of Evangelical Anglicans and Quakers led by William Wilberforce. The Act did not abolish slavery itself but was a major step towards recognising its damaging effects and led toward its complete abolition across the Empire in 1833.

And... see my previous blog (which got posted before this one!) for the mail which brought the coin!