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PAVING THE WAY FOR THE END OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE (BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.) Copy of an Order of His Majesty in Council, dated the 15th of August 1805;made for prohibiting the Importation of Slaves into any of the Settlements, Islands, Colonies or Plantations, on the Continent of America, or in the West Indies, which have been surrendered to His Majesty during the Present War. 3 pages, tall folio, disbound. [London, 1805]
A very important early order leading to the eventual end of the African slave-trade. Both William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson worked tirelessly during the last decade of the eighteenth century to this end. With this order, the British forbade the import of any more slaves to France's old colonies in the Americas. A year later, the act to abolish the trade entirely was proposed and passed. It went into effect in 1807.
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