The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
History
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Slave trade -- United States -- History
[50] _Ibid._, pp. 135-47. Great Britain made treaties
meanwhile with Hayti, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentine
Confederation, Mexico, Texas, etc. Portugal prohibited the
slave-trade in 1836, except between her African colonies. Cf.
_Ibid._, from 1838 to 1841.
[51] These estimates are from the following sources: _Ibid._,
1822-3, pp. 94-110; _Parliamentary Papers_, 1823, XVIII.,
_Slave Trade_, Further Papers, A., pp. 10-11; 1838-9, XLIX.,
_Slave Trade_, Class A, Further Series, pp. 115, 119, 121;
_House Doc._, 19 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 1, p. 93; 20 Cong. 1
sess. III. No. 99; 26 Cong. 1 sess. VI. No. 211; _House Exec.
Doc._, 31 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, p. 193; _House Reports_, 21
Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348; _Senate Doc._, 28 Cong. 1 sess.
IV. No. 217; 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV. No. 66; 31 Cong. 2 sess.
II. No. 6; _Amer. State Papers, Naval_, I. No. 249; Buxton,
_The African Slave Trade and its Remedy_, pp. 44-59; Friends'
_Facts and Observations on the Slave Trade_ (ed. 1841);
Friends' _Exposition of the Slave Trade, 1840-50_; _Annual
Reports of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society_.
The annexed table gives the dates of the abolition of the
slave-trade by the various nations:--
-------+-------------------+---------------------------+--------------
| | |Arrangements
| | Right of Search Treaty | for Joint
Date. |Slave-trade | with Great Britain, | Cruising
| Abolished by | made by | with Great
| | | Britain,
| | | made by
-------+-------------------+---------------------------+--------------
1802 | Denmark. | |
1807 | Great Britain; | |
| United States. | |
1813 | Sweden. | |
1814 | Netherlands. | |
1815 | Portugal (north | |
| of the equator).| |
1817 | Spain (north of | Portugal; Spain. |
| the equator). | |
1818 | France. | Netherlands. |
1820 | Spain. | |
1824 | | Sweden. |
1829 | Brazil (?). | |
1830 | Portugal. | |
1831-33| | France. |
1833-39| | Denmark, Hanse Towns, etc.|
1841 | | Quintuple Treaty (Austria,|
1842 | | Russia, Prussia).
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