Feb 28, 2006 - Sale 2068

Sale 2068 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.) Group of 8 British Parliamentary papers dealing with the slave-trade. Correspondence with Spain, Portugal, Brazil, The Netherlands, and the Argentine Confederation relative to the Slave-Trade. From January 1 to December 31, 1841 Inclusive * Treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for the Suppression of the Slave-Trade, Signed at Lisbon, July 3, 1842 * Correspondence respecting the Case of the Fugitive Slave Anderson * Correspondence of the British Commissioners relating to the Slave-Trade. 1841 * Correspondence with Foreign Powers. 1842 , plus three others. Tall folio, original self-wrappers, some soiling and chipping. should be seen. London, 1841-70

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Over one thousand pages of parliamentary papers dealing with the attempts of the British to curb the slave-trade following the official end of the trade in 1807, and the emancipation of British slaves in 1834. While most countries were signatories to the agreements banning the slave-trade, scores of ships continued to take slaves well into the 1870s.