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Correspondence with foreign powers, not parties to conventions giving right search or vessels suspected of the slave trade. From May 1, 1838, to February 2, 1839, inclusive. Presented to both houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.
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- 1839 (Creation)
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"This detailed report is a primary source on England's efforts to stamp out the African slave trade, with correspondence on conferences in London, and many diplomatic exchanges between England and Austria, Russia, Buenos Aires, Egypt, Haiti, Mexico, Montevideo, New Grenada, Peru, Venezuela, and the United States. This item reports much information on the illegal traffic, with data on ships, their captains, slaves brought into western ports, employment of the American flag in aid of the slave trade undertakings." –Description from vendor