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Title

Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords : appointed to consider the best means which Great Britain can adopt for the final extinction of the African slave trade; and to report thereon to the House; together with the minutes of evidence, and an appendix and index thereto : Session 1849.

Publication

[London] : [House of Commons], 1849.

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Additional Authors

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, issuing body.

Description

434, 228 pages : folded maps; 33 cm

Summary

The first rare report of this Select Committee, followed in 1850 by a second, more common report. Witnesses appeared before the Committee from April through early July, 1849. Their testimony, printed at pages 3-432, describes the various attempts to suppress the African Slave Trade, Treaties and other efforts for foreign governments "to punish slave-trading"; the types of vessels used in the Slave Trade, and their outfitting; Brazil as a major offender; culture and other characteristics of the African nations from which the slaves are taken, with eyewitness accounts from missionaries; the horrors and high mortality rates of the middle passage - disease, whippings, lack of food and water. "Every slave, whatever his size might be, was found to have only five feet and six inches in length and sixteen inches in breadth to lie in. The floor was covered with bodies stowed or packed according to this allowance... The men were chained two and two together by their hands and feet, and were chained, also, by means of bolts, which were fastened to the deck." The graphic plate of the Slave Ship demonstrates these horrific conditions. The Appendix lists hundreds of vessels stopped by British Cruisers for carrying on the slave trade, with their dates of capture, tonnage, number of slaves, and judgments; more testimony; constitutions of Liberia and the American Colonization Society; official documents; and a variety of other useful material.

Alternative Title

Minutes of evidence and an appendix and index thereto : Session 1849

Subject

• Slave trade > Africa > 19th century > Sources
• Slavery > History > Sources
• Slavery > Law and legislation > History > Great Britain > Sources
• Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects
• Enslaved persons > Social conditions > Sources
• Abolitionists > Great Britain
• Antislavery movements > Great Britain
• Slave traders > Africa, West
• Slave ships

Note

• Includes a folded plan of slave ship.
• "Ordered to be printed 23rd July, 1849."--Title page.

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Call Number

Sc Rare G 17-6 (Lapidus Collection)

OCLC

985620577

Title

Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords : appointed to consider the best means which Great Britain can adopt for the final extinction of the African slave trade; and to report thereon to the House; together with the minutes of evidence, and an appendix and index thereto : Session 1849.

Publisher

[London] : [House of Commons], 1849.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Source

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2017. Copy in Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

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Added Author

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, issuing body.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare G 17-6 (Lapidus Collection)