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  • Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the rejection of the bill for abolishing the slave trade / by Anna Letitia Barbauld.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for J. Johnson ..., 1791.
    • 1791
    • 2 Items
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    Text *KL (Barbauld, A. L. A. Epistle to William Wilberforce)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Pforz (Barbauld, A./Epistle) 1791Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • A few words on the subject of the slave trade, addressed to English women.

    • Text
    • [London, J. Brettell, printer, 1814?]
    • 1814
  • Real cedula de Su Magestad concediendo libertad para el comercio de negros con las islas de Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, y provincia de Caracas, á Españoles y extrangeros, baxo las reglas que se expresan.

    • Text
    • Cadiz, Reimpresa por D. Juan Ximenez Carreño, 1789.
    • 1789
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF+ 1789 (Spain. Real cedula)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Vom Ursprung des Negerhandels. Ein Antrittsprogramm von Matthias Christian Sprengel ...

    • Text
    • Halle, Gedruckt bey J.C. Hendel, 1779.
    • 1779
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF 1779 (Sprengel, M. C. Vom Ursprung des Negerhandels)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A view of the present state of the African slave trade. Published by direction of a meeting representing the religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, &c.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, W. Brown, printer, 1824.
    • 1824
  • Extrait des registres du Parlement, du 22 juin 1768.

    • Text
    • [Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, imprimeur du Parlement, 1768]
    • 1768
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF 1768 (France. Parlement (Paris). Extrait des registres du Parlement)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The slave trade and slavery: The influence of British settlements on the west coast of Africa, in relation to both: illustrated by extracts from the letters of Dr. R.R. Madden, in the Morning Chronicle, the United Service Gazette, &c.

    • Text
    • London, J. Madden and co., 1843.
    • 1843
  • Treaty between Her Majesty and the republick of Texas, for the suppression of the African slave trade. Signed at London, November 16, 1840. Presented to both houses of parliament, by command of Her Majesty, 1842.

    • Text
    • London, Printed by T.R. Harrison [1842]
    • 1842
    • 2 Items

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    Text *KF+ 1842 (Great Britain. Treaty between Her Majesty and the republick of Texas)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text SC Rare Lapidus Collection Box 2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Adresse a l'Assemblée nationale.

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    • [Paris, 178-?]
    • 178
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF 1780 (France. Commerce, Conseil de. Adresse a l'Assemblee nationale)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Lettres patentes du roy, pour permettre aux negocians de Languedoc de faire le commerce de Guinée. Données a Paris au mois de janvier 1719.

    • Text
    • Paris, De 'Imprimerie royale, 1719.
    • 1719
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KB 1719 (France. Crown, 1715-1774 (Louis XV). Lettres patentes du roy)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A calm inquiry into the countenance afforded by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, to the system of British colonial slavery.

    • Text
    • London : [s.n.], 1832.
    • 1832
  • Lettres patentes du roy, pour la liberté du commerce sur les costes d'Afrique. Données à Paris au mois de janvier 1716.

    • Text
    • [Paris, Chez la veuve de François Muguet, Herbert Muguet, premier imprimeur du roy, & Louis Denis de la Tour libraire, 1716]
    • 1716
    • 2 Items
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    Text *KB 1716 (France. Lettres patentes du roy)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Sc Rare D 15-2 (Lapidus Collection)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Arrest du Conseil d'estat du roy, pour le payement de la gratification de treize livres par teste de negre, & de vingt livres par chaque marc ou matieres de poudre d'or que la Compagnie du Senegal & coste d'Afrique feroit entrer en France, venant des pays de sa concession, accordée à ladite Compagnie par l'article XXIV. des Lettres patentes de Sa Majesté du mois de mars 1696. portant establissement de ladite Compagnie. Du 22. aoust 1724. Extrait des registres du Conseil d'estat.

    • Text
    • [Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1725]
    • 1725
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KB 1725 (France. Conseil d'etat. Arrest du Conseil d'estat du roy, pour le payement de la gratification de treize livres...)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Substance of the bishop of Rochester's speech in the House of peers, Friday, July 5, 1799, in the debate upon the second reading of the bill to prohibit the trading in slaves on the coast of Africa, within certain limits.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for J. Robson, 1799.
    • 1799
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF 1799 (Horsley, S. Substance of the bishop of Rochester's speech)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Arrest du Conseil d'estat: qui confirme le traité fait par les directeurs du domaine d'Occident pour la traite des négres aux isles de l'Amérique. Du 26. octobre 1675.

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    • Paris, Par Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, imprimeur du roy, 1675.
    • 1675
  • Assiento, que se ha ajustado con el capitan don Gaspar de Andrada, tesorero, y administrador general de la Compañia real de Guinea, sita en Lisboa, corte del reyno de Portugal. Sobre encargarse de la introducion de Negros en la America D. Manuel Ferreyra de Carvallo, como socio, y en virtud de poder de la dicha real compañia, por tiempo de seis años, y ocho meses, que empezaron en siete de julio de 1696.

    • Text
    • [Madrid, 1696]
    • 1696
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KB+ 1696 (Companhia De Cacheu E Cabo Verde. Assiento, que se ha ajustado con el capitan don Gaspar de Andrada)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The Assiento contract consider'd. As also, the advantages and decay of the trade of Jamaica and the plantations, with the causes and consequences thereof. In several letters to a member of Parliament ...

    • Text
    • London, F. Burleigh 1714.
    • 1714
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1714 (Assiento contract consider'd)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The trade granted to the South-sea-company: considered with relation to Jamaica. In a letter to one of the Directors of the South-sea-company; by a gentleman who has resided several years in Jamaica.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for Samuel Crouch, 1714.
    • 1714
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1714 (Trade granted to the South-sea-company)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The several declarations of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa, inviting all His Majesties native subjects in general to subscribe, and become sharers in their joynt-stock. Together with His Royal Highness James duke of York and Albany, &c. and the rest of the said royal companies letter to the Right Honourable Francis lord Willoughby of Parham, &c. Intimating the said companies resolutions to furnish His Majesties American plantations with negroes at certain and moderate rates. As also a list of the Royal Adventurers fo England Trading into Africa.

    • Text
    • [London] Anno Dom. 1667.
    • 1667
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KC 1667 (Royal African Company of England. Several declarations of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A True and impartial account of the rise and progress of the South sea company; wherein the Assiento contract is particularly considered: proving the great advantages that would have accrued to England by a faithful observance of it on the part of Spain. With observations on a late pamphlet, intituled, Considerations on the American trade, before and since the establishment of the South sea company, detecting the many gross misrepresentations of the author. Humbly addressed to Admiral Vernon. By a gentleman now resident in Jamaica ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed for T. Cooper, 1743.
    • 1743
    • 2 Items
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    Text *KC 1743 (Houstoun, J. True and impartial account of the rise and progress of the South Sea company)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Rare Books 19-883Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The national and private advantages of the African trade considered: being an enquiry, how far it concerns the trading interest of Great Britain, effectually to support and maintain the forts and settlements in Africa belonging to the Royal African company of England ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1746.
    • 1746
    • 2 Items

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    Text *KC 1746 (Postlethwayt, M. National and private advantages of the African trade considered)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Sc Rare E 16-25 (Lapidus Collection)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Proposals for raising a new company for carrying on the trades of Africa and the Spanish West-Indies, under the title of The United company. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the Parliament of Great-Britain.

    • Text
    • London, Printed and sold by John Morphew, 1709.
    • 1709
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1709 (Proposals for raising a new company for carrying on the trades)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Considerations on the revival of the Royal-British-assiento; between His Catholick-Majesty, and the honourable the South-Sea company. With an humble attempt to unite the African-trade to that of the South Sea company, by act of Parliament. By Malachy Postlethwayt ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1749.
    • 1749
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1749 (Postlethwayt, M. Considerations on the revival of the Royal-British-assiento)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Observations On the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes. With some Advice thereon extracted form [!] the Yearly Meeting Epistle of London for the present Year. Also Some Remarks on the absolute Necessity of Self-Denial, renouncing the World, and true Charity for all such as sincerely Desire to be our blessed Saviour's Disciples.

    • Text
    • Germantown, Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759.
    • 1759
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KD 1759 (Benezet, A. Observations On the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African: translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785, with additions.

    • Text
    • London, printed; Philadelphia, Re-printed by J. Crukshank ... , 1786.
    • 1786
    • 2 Items
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    Text *KD 1786 (Clarkson, T. Essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Sc Rare C 15-64 (Lapidus Collection)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Unfreiheit der meere; dunkle blätter der seekriegsgeschichte [microform] Von Dr. Otto Eck.

    • Text
    • München, Berlin, R. Oldenbourg, 1943.
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Z-545 no. 1-14Offsite
  • Wilberforce's speeches on the abolition of the slave trade [microform]

    • Text
    • [Columbia, Mo.] 1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Z-1298Offsite
  • The speeches of Mr. Pitt & Mr. Fox, in the House of commons, on Mr. Wilberforce's motion for the abolition of the slave-trade, April, 1791.

    • Text
    • [London? 1791?]
    • 1791
  • The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 [microform]

    • Text
    • New York, Longmans, Green, 1896.
    • 1896
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Z-1410Offsite
  • Remarks on the slave trade, extracted from the American Museum, for May, 1789.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, Printed by Mathew Carey, 1789.
    • 1789
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KVB++ (1789, May 29) (Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Remarks on the slave trade)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Arrest du Conseil d'état du roi, qui, en ordonnant l'exécution de celui du 31 juillet dernier, concernant le commerce des noirs à la côte d'Afrique, exempte les négocians des ports de Saint-Malo, du Havre & de Honfleur, du droit de dix livres par tête de noirs qu'ils porteront aux isles & colonies françoises. Du trente septembre mil sept cent soixante-sept. Extrait des registres du Conseil d'état.

    • Text
    • [Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, imprimeur du Parlement, 1771]
    • 1771
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KVB 1771 (France. Conseil d'etat. Arrest du Conseil d'etat du roi....Du 30 sept. 1767)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • William Pitt and the abolition of the slave trade [microform] / by Patrick Cleburne Lipscomb III.

    • Text
    • c1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Z-1292Offsite
  • Remarks on the methods of procuring slaves with a short account of their treatment in the West-Indies, &c.

    • Text
    • London, Printed by and for Darton and Harvey, 1793.
    • 1793
  • The case of the Royal African-company and of the plantations.

    • Text
    • [London, 1714]
    • 1714
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KVB 1714 (Royal African Company of England. Case of the Royal African-company and of the plantations)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The Southern confederacy and the African slave trade [microform] The correspondence between Professor Cairnes and George M'Henry, esq. With and introd. and notes by George B. Wheeler.

    • Text
    • Dublin, McGlashan & Gill, 1863.
    • 1863-
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZH-204 18 misc. american history titlesOffsite
  • Arrest du Conseil d'estat du roy, qui subroge la Compagnie des Indes aux droits & pretentiions appartenant à la Compagnie de Saint Domingue, tant en France qu'à l'Amerique & autres lieux, avec le privilege exclusif de fournir à l'isle de Saint Domingue trente mille negres tirez de l'estranger. Du 10. septembre 1720. Extrait des registres du Conseil d'estat.

    • Text
    • [Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1720]
    • 1720
    • 1 Resource

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  • A letter on the abolition of the slave trade; addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire [microform] By W. Wilberforce, esq. ...

    • Text
    • London: Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807.
    • 1807
    • 2 Items
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    Text *ZT SEKB p.v. 3-5, 7 r. 5Offsite
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    Text *ZT SEKB p.v. 8-10 r. 6Offsite
  • Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations; submitting to His Majesty's consideration the evidence and information they have collected in consequence of his Majesty's order in Council, dated the 11th of February 1788, concerning the present state of the trade to Africa, and particularly the trade in slaves; and concerning the effects and consequences of this trade, as well in Africa and the West Indies, as to the general commerce of this kingdom [microform]

    • Text
    • [London], 1789.
    • 1789
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-3170Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A few words on the subject of the slave trade, addressed to English women [microform].

    • Text
    • [London : J. Brettell, printer, 1814?]
    • 1814
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-10315Offsite
  • An act for rendering more effectual an act made in the forty-seventh year of his Majesty reign : intituled "An act for the abolition of the slave trade.".

    • Text
    • London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1811.
    • 1811
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare+ F 09-2 no. 1-9Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • An act to amend an act of last session of Parliament, for carrying into execution a convention made between His Majesty and the King of Portugal, for the preventing the traffic in slaves.

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    • London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1819.
    • 1819
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Rare+ F 09-2 no. 1-9Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • An act to carry into execution a treaty made between His Majesty and the King of Spain : for the preventing traffic in slaves.

    • Text
    • London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1818.
    • 1818
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare+ F 09-2 no. 1-9Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • An act to allow ships taken and condemned for being used in carrying on the slave trade to be registered as British-built ships.

    • Text
    • London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1814.
    • 1814
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Rare+ F 09-2 no. 1-9Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • An act to explain three acts, passed in the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and fifty-first years of His Majesty's reign, respectively, for the abolition of the slave trade.

    • Text
    • [London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1818]
    • 1818
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare+ F 09-2 no. 1-9Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • An act to explain and amend an act passed in the fifty-first year of His Majesty's reign, for rendering more effectual an act made in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign, for the abolition of the slave trade.

    • Text
    • [London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1818]
    • 1818
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare+ F 09-2 no. 1-9Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • An act to extend the provisions of an act made in the forty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign : intituled An act for the more speedy trial of offences committed in distant parts upon the seas, to the trial of offences committed in Africa against the laws for abolishing the slave trade.

    • Text
    • [London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1819]
    • 1819
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Rare+ F 09-2 no. 1-9Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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