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38,033 SLAVES FOUND ON CAPTURED SLAVERS (BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT.) A Return of all Vessels, their Names and Tonnage, captured (on suspicion of being engaged in the Slave Trade), from 1840-48 [caption title]. 22 pages. Small folio, original self-wrappers. (London, 1850)
The official end of the slave trade in 1807 had little impact on slavers. In just the period between 1840 and 1848, revenue cutters patrolling the seas from the West coast of Africa to Rio de Janeiro managed to capture and condemn some 578 vessels.
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