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... . This Company was instituted in 1791 , when the Abolition of the Slave Trade , now at length happily accomplished , was not without reason regarded as an event near at hand . The Company calculated on being delivered from the 43.
... . This Company was instituted in 1791 , when the Abolition of the Slave Trade , now at length happily accomplished , was not without reason regarded as an event near at hand . The Company calculated on being delivered from the 43.
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... . This Company was instituted in 1791 , when the Abolition of the Slave Trade , now at length happily accomplished , was not without reason regarded as an event near at hand . The Company calculated on being delivered from the 43.
... . This Company was instituted in 1791 , when the Abolition of the Slave Trade , now at length happily accomplished , was not without reason regarded as an event near at hand . The Company calculated on being delivered from the 43.
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... abolition laws of Great Britain , and of other nations , are effectual ; and , if ineffectual , by what means and under what pretences they are evaded ; and also what steps may be advantageously taken to prevent such evasions . The ...
... abolition laws of Great Britain , and of other nations , are effectual ; and , if ineffectual , by what means and under what pretences they are evaded ; and also what steps may be advantageously taken to prevent such evasions . The ...
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... abolition of the Slave Trade , Africa has continued until the present year to endure all the evils of that Trade , aggravated by the eager competition of the Slave Traders on the eve of its termination . An extract of a private letter ...
... abolition of the Slave Trade , Africa has continued until the present year to endure all the evils of that Trade , aggravated by the eager competition of the Slave Traders on the eve of its termination . An extract of a private letter ...
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... Abolition Act must be carried to the West - Indies for adjudication ; a course which would be attended with a cruel protraction of the confinement on ship - board of the captured Slaves . At Sierra Leone it will also be much easier than ...
... Abolition Act must be carried to the West - Indies for adjudication ; a course which would be attended with a cruel protraction of the confinement on ship - board of the captured Slaves . At Sierra Leone it will also be much easier than ...
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Abolition Act of Parliament aforesaid Africa African Institution African Slave Trade America appear Appendix bounties British captors cargo carried chief civilization Coast of Africa Collector colony Committee condemned considerable Cotton Court cultivation Directors ditto Duke of Gloucester duty Earl effect employed export extend fibres flogged foreign forfeited forfeitures Governor Huggins hundred important improvement inhabitants island John justice labour lashes Liverpool Majesty Majesty's Government Mandingo master means Memorialist ment natives of Africa negroes object offence officer Palm Oil Parliament penalties persons resident plants port Portuguese pounds sterling present prize procure produce prohibited prosecuted punishment purpose quantity received Report respect Right Honourable Right Honourable LORD Royal Highness Sect seed seized sent settlement ship or vessel Sierra Leone Company Slave or Slaves Slave Trade Sunn taken territory Thomas tion trade in Slaves transhipped Viscount Valentia West Indies William witness
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Página 22 - SlaveTrade throughout the whole of his dominions. And actuated by this principle, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal engages that his subjects shall not be permitted to carry on the Slave Trade on any part of the Coast of Africa, not actually belonging to His Royal Highness's dominions, in which that trade has been discontinued and abandoned by the powers and states of Europe, which formerly traded there...
Página 6 - The slave trade has since been totally abolished by this country, and our legislature has pronounced it to be contrary to the principles of justice and humanity. Whatever we might think as individuals before, we could not, sitting as judges in a British court of justice, regard the trade in that light, while our own laws permitted it. But we can now assert that this trade cannot, abstractedly speaking, have a legitimate existence. When I say abstractedly speaking...
Página 14 - The principle laid down in that case appears to be, that the slave trade, carried on by a vessel belonging to a subject of the United States, is a trade which, being unprotected by the domestic regulations of their legislature and government, subjects the vessel engaged in it to a sentence of condemnation.
Página 27 - Ix'fore the determination thereof; it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ten, it shall and may be lawful, for any person or persons...
Página 27 - ... to the use of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall inform or sue for the same...
Página 41 - Merchandize unlawfully imported into the same Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory, may now be seized and prosecuted therein by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force for regulating the Navigation and Trade of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations and shall and may, after his or their Condemnation, be disposed of in Manner herein-after mentioned and provided.
Página 51 - If any action be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this act, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence, and if...
Página 41 - Counsellors, Aiders and Abettors, shall be and are hereby declared to be Felons, and shall be transported beyond Seas for a Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, or shall be confined and kept to Hard Labour for a Term not exceeding Five Years, nor less than Three Years, at the Discretion of the Court before whom such Offender or Offenders shall be tried and convicted.
Página 51 - ... may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of...
Página 40 - ... not possible for me to behold the wonderful fertility of the soil, the vast herds of cattle, proper both for labour and food, and a variety of other circumstances favourable to colonization and agriculture ; and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted and favoured by nature, should remain in its present savage and neglected state.