March 25, 1828, Joseph Badger. Ibid., IV. 192.

      Feb. 19, 1829, L.R.  Wallace. Ibid., IV. 215.

      PRESIDENT JACKSON:  Five cases. Ibid., IV. 225, 270, 301,
      393, 440.

      The above cases were taken from manuscript copies of the
      Washington records, made by Mr. W.C.  Endicott, Jr., and kindly
      loaned me.

[149] See Senate Journal, 20 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 60, 66, 340,
      341, 343, 348, 352, 355; House Journal, 20 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
      59, 76, 123, 134, 156, 169, 173, 279, 634, 641, 646, 647, 688,
      692.

[150] Statutes at Large, VI. 376.

[151] Among interesting minor proceedings in this period were
      two Senate bills to register slaves so as to prevent illegal
      importation.  They were both dropped in the House; a House
      proposition to the same effect also came to nothing:  Senate
      Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 147, 152, 157, 165, 170, 188,
      201, 203, 232, 237; 15 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 63, 74, 77, 202, 207,
      285, 291, 297; House Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. p. 332; 15
      Cong. 2 sess. pp. 303, 305, 316; 16 Cong. 1 sess. p. 150. 
      Another proposition was contained in the Meigs resolution
      presented to the House, Feb. 5, 1820, which proposed to devote
      the public lands to the suppression of the slave-trade.  This
      was ruled out of order.  It was presented again and laid on the
      table in 1821:  House Journal, 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 196, 200,
      227; 16 Cong. 2 sess. p. 238.

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Chapter IX

THE INTERNATIONAL STATUS OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.

1783-1862.

66.  The Rise of the Movement against the Slave-Trade, 1788-1807. 67.  Concerted Action of the Powers, 1783-1814. 68.  Action of the Powers from 1814 to 1820. 69.  The Struggle for an International Right of Search, 1820-1840. 70.  Negotiations of 1823-1825. 71.  The Attitude of the United States and the State of the Slave-Trade. 72.  The Quintuple Treaty, 1839-1842. 73.  Final Concerted Measures, 1842-1862.

66. The Rise of the Movement against the Slave-Trade, 1788-1807. At the beginning of the nineteenth century England held 800,000 slaves in her colonies; France, 250,000; Denmark, 27,000; Spain and Portugal, 600,000; Holland, 50,000; Sweden, 600; there were also about 2,000,000 slaves in Brazil, and about 900,000 in the United States.[1] This was the powerful basis of the demand for the slave-trade; and against the economic forces which these four and a half millions of enforced laborers represented, the battle for freedom had to be fought.