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Slave Trade Bibliography (This page will be updated periodically.) |
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Books Baillie,
James. The Speech of James Baillie, Agent for Grenada, in the House
of Commons, on the Question for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, on
Monday April 2, 1792. London: Printed by W. Woodfall, 1792.
Commercial
Reasons for the Non-Abolition of the Slave Trade, in the West India Islands,
by a Planter, and Merchant of Many Years Residence in the West Indies.
3rd ed. London: W. Lane, 1789. 326.1
Com Jamaica.
Laws, Statutes, etc. 1774. Copies of an Act Passed by the Assembly of
Jamaica, February 1774 and of an Act Passed by the Said Assembly in
November 1774; Imposing Duties on the Importation of Negroes from the
Coast of Africa-Together with Proceedings of the Board of Trade in
Consequences of Those Acts. London: n.p., 1774. Pam 326.1 Ja Jam
Manuscripts Notice,
signed by John Pownall, to Joshua Sharpe, that the Lords Commissioners
for Trade and Plantation have appointed Tuesday the 31st instant
for considering Mr. Hutchinson Mure’s petition for license to supply the
French colonies in the West Indies with Negroes, taking indico in return;
Whitehall, January 19, 1758. Hutchinson Mure.1f. MS
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Prints Stowage of the British slave ship “Brookes” under the regulated slave trade.
Act of 1788. Notes: The
“Brookes” after the regulation Act of 1788, was allowed to carry 454
slaves. She could stow this number by following the rule adopted in this
plate namely of allowing a space of 6ft by 1ft 4inch to each man, 5ft 10inch
by 1ft 4inch to each woman and 5ft by 1ft 2inch to each boy but so much
space as this was seldom allowed even after the regulation act. It was proved by the confession of the slave Merchant that before the above Act the Brookes had at one time carried as many as 609 Slaves. This was done by taking some out of irons and locking them spoon wise to use the technical term that is by stowing one within the distended legs of the other. Lithographer
J. Arrowsmith.
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