xiii, [1 blank], 410 pp. Folio, bound in later plain blue wrappers with title on front cover. Very Good plus.  An extraordinarily detailed compendium of material resulting from the Royal Navy's capture of ships purportedly engaging in the African slave trade. The diplomatic correspondence with Spain and Portugal, in particular, focuses on energetic slave trading activities in Cuba. Interception of ships carrying Africans is recounted with complete descriptions of the condition of the Africans, and much other significant data.

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xxii, 826 pp. Folio, bound in contemporary cloth with marbled paper and leather corners [rubbed]. Occasional trifling wear, a couple of rubberstamps, a clean and bright text. Near Fine.  A massive, extraordinarily detailed compilation of the Royal Navy's interception and capture of ships engaged in the African slave trade. The diplomatic correspondence with Spain and Portugal, in particular, focuses on Cuba's energetic and thriving slave trade, with a bit of material on the Amistad. Descriptions of shipboard living quarters and conditions of the Africans, re-enslavement of freed slaves, deceptions practiced by the slave ships, other violations of law, and much other data are presented.

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184pp. Folio. Bound in modern paper wrappers. Light occasional tan or minor wear, Near Fine.  An indispensable primary source on England's efforts to stamp out the African slave trade, recording England's diplomatic exchanges with Belgium, Greece, Hanover, Tripoli, Tunis, Equator, New Granada, Peru, Muscat and-- from pages 39-181-- the United States. This item reports much information on the illegal traffic, with detailed data on ships, their captains, the slave cargo, observations on efforts to evade British investigations. The United States is severely scolded for its participation in the traffic; the U.S. responds with high-minded outrage at British board-and-search practices, which are claimed to violate international law.

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6pp, with the half title, dbd. Folio, Very Good. [offered with] FROM JUNE 1 TO DECEMBER 31, , INCLUSIVE. PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY. 1840. 30pp, with the half title bound at the end, dbd. Folio, Very Good. Primary sources on England's efforts to stamp out the African slave trade, with many diplomatic exchanges between England and France, Denmark, Sardinia, Tuscany, and the Two Sicilies. These items report much information on the illegal traffic, with data on slave ships sailing under the flags of Portugal, Denmark, and elsewhere; horrific punishments and inhumane treatment inflicted on the captured Africans; and material on international Slave Trade Conventions.

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75pp, folio. Dbd. Very Good. Useful primary source on England's efforts to stamp out the African slave trade, with many diplomatic exchanges between England and France, Sardinia, Tuscany, Haiti, and Venezuela. These items report much information on the illegal traffic, with data on slave ships sailing illegally under the flags of nations that have outlawed the slave trade; the inhumane treatment inflicted on the captured Africans; and material on international Slave Trade Conventions. Palmerston writes that, "The demand for human beings as articles of traffic on the Coast of Africa keeps up among the Africans the practice of war for man-stealing, and occasions an infinite variety of crimes and atrocities."

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193pp. Folio, disbound, minor foxing else a clean text. Very Good.  An indispensable primary source on England's efforts to stamp out the African slave trade, the many diplomatic exchanges replete with information on the trade between Africa and the West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, and Central America. Details on vessels engaging in the illegal traffic are reported, with numerous lists of vessels, their flags, their captains, and numbers of slaves "imported" into western ports. The various disguises and artifices of the slave ships are discussed at length, and material on legal proceedings with respect to condemned vessels is recorded.

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2, [1 blank, 1] pp, folio, untrimmed. Caption title. Faint tan, else clean and Very Good. The Jamaica Assembly "complains of the very great injury caused to all classes of your Majesty's subjects in this colony by the continued importation of large numbers of African slaves into certain parts of the continent and islands of America, of the increased activity of a traffic which, on the part of Great Britain, has happily ceased to exist in her colonies for a period of 30 years." Foreign competition with products of slave labor will ruin the commerce of Jamaica.

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231pp, disbound, Very Good.  The United States denies British allegations that it had permitted ships flying its colors to engage in the African slave trade. Resentment is expressed toward high-handed British policing of international waters, and information is included here on various slaving vessels and slave-trading practices. The focus of British charges is Consul Nicholas Trist, who later negotiated the treaty ending the Mexican War.

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248pp, dbd, light fox. Very Good. A detailed review of "the state of things on the coast of Africa," the activities of England in "checking the African slave trade," and the roadblocks to establishing a treaty with the U.S. in that regard. British board-and-search tactics, so reminiscent of the objectionable practice that helped bring on the War of 1812, were a major obstacle to such a treaty. FIRST EDITION.

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38th Cong., 1st Sess. SED56. 1864. 28pp, disbound. Minor foxing. Very Good.

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43pp, dbd, light scattered foxing and wear. Very Good. On the misuse of the American flag in the African-Brazilian slave trade. The United States is "mortified" at this practice; the U.S. consul includes eye-witness reports. FIRST EDITION.

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40pp, disbound, foxed, Good.  Devoted to "the extinction of the slave-trade," the African Institution was a London-based society which monitored "the trade in human beings" all over the world. The Institution reports on slave-dealing activities of European (including Sweden) and South American countries with Africa, with much anecdotal material. FIRST EDITION. Blockson 9408. Dumond 5. LCP 148.

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136pp, later plain wrappers. First and last pages dustsoiled, else Very Good. The author examines, with much erudition and data, the oddity that Committees of the Lords and Commons have arrived at opposite conclusions as to the efficacy of British efforts to abolish the international slave trade: the former reporting that England had "greatly checked and crippled" it; the latter, that scarcely a dent had been made and, indeed, that such efforts had produced more harm than good. The author concludes that the Lords are correct; and that the hazards of serving in the African Squadron do not justify its being dismantled. Work 259 [citing only this ed.]. LCP 3580 [citing only the 1851 1st of 126, 2pp]. Not in Blockson, Eberstadt, Sabin.

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