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The African Slave Trade and its Remedy, pp. 44-59; Friends’
Facts and Observations on the Slave Trade (ed. 1841);
Friends’ Exposition of the Slave Trade, 1840-50; Annual
Reports of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
The African Slave Trade and its Remedy, pp. 44-59; Friends’
Facts and Observations on the Slave Trade (ed. 1841);
Friends’ Exposition of the Slave Trade, 1840-50; Annual
Reports of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
The annexed table gives the dates
of the abolition of the
slave-trade by the various nations:—
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+-------------- | | |Arrangements | | Right of Search Treaty | for Joint Date. |Slave-trade | with Great Britain, | Cruising | Abolished by | made by | with Great | | | Britain, | | | made by -------+-------------------+---------------------------+----
---------- 1802 | Denmark. | | 1807 | Great Britain; | | | United States. | | 1813 | Sweden. | | 1814 | Netherlands. | | 1815 | Portugal (north | | | of the equator).| | 1817 | Spain (north of | Portugal; Spain. | | the equator). | | 1818 | France. | Netherlands. | 1820 | Spain. | | 1824 | | Sweden. | 1829 | Brazil (?). | | 1830 | Portugal. | | 1831-33| | France. | 1833-39| | Denmark, Hanse Towns, etc.| 1841 | | Quintuple Treaty (Austria,| 1842 | | Russia, Prussia). | United States. 1844 | | Texas. | 1845 | | Belgium. | France. 1862 | | United States. | -------+-------------------+---------------------------+----
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[52] Cf. British and Foreign State Papers,
from 1836 to
1842.
[53] Ibid., 1839-40, p. 940.
[54] House Doc., 27 Cong. 1 sess. No. 34, pp. 5-6.
[55] Senate Doc., 29 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 377, p. 56.
[56] Ibid., p. 72.
[57] Ibid., pp. 133-40, etc.
[58] British and Foreign State Papers, 1841-2, p. 269 ff.
[59] See below, Appendix B.
[60] Senate Doc., 29 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 377, p. 201.
[61] Senate Exec. Journal, VI. 123.
