Feb 26, 2004 - Sale 1998

Sale 1998 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
Slave Bounties. An Account of all Sums of Money which have been paid at any time by Great Britain, as Bounties for or in respect of Slaves found or captured in any Vessels engaged in the illegal traffic in Slaves. 8 pages. Folio, disbound; some light foxing. London, 01 April 1822

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A detailed listing of not only the persons awarded bounties, but the names of the vessels, the number of slaves (men, women, and children), and where they were captured. Though proscribed by an Act of Parliament in 1807, the slave trade continued well into the 1850s.