SLAVE TRADE - PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

Class B. Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, relating to the Slave Trade. From April 1, 1850, to March 31, 1851.

London, Harrison and Son, 1851. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Wear to extremities and front hindge a bit weak. One small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. xxiii, (1), 886 pp. + 1 folded map.

The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade in Africa, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Tripoli, Turkey, United States and Venezuela, containing, amongst several other issues, a lengthy report from James Hudson, Brazil, to Palmerston on the bourgeoning sentiments in Brazil towards abandoning the slave trade. An act which Palmerston instructs James Hudson to fight against.
Eusébio de Queiróz Act (Law 581 of 4 September 1850) ended up criminalizing the maritime slave trade as piracy, and imposed other criminal sanctions on the importation of slaves in Brazil.

Order-nr.: 53844