The British Parliament litigates abolition and suppression of the slave trade

[Slave Trade]. Parliamentary Acts relating to the abolition and suppression of the slave trade.

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Rare British parliamentary papers on the suppression of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery in the British colonies and abroad. While slavery had been illegal on the British mainland under Common Law since the 12th century, it was still practiced in British colonies until the early 19th century. However, pressure from the Jamaican and other slave revolts, successful lawsuits filed by enslaved persons who had been transported to Great Britain, and growing abolitionist sentiment combined to force Parliament to act. Included in this important collection are summaries of agreements made with foreign powers, including the King of France, the King of Two Sicilies, and those of Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, which aimed to suppress the movement of slave ships in international and coastal waters. Others dictate the process by which enslaved persons aboard ships seized by the British would be handled from a legal perspective: how and when restitution might be made to slaveholders who considered them financial assets, for example, and who has jurisdiction over such cases.

A thorough record of nearly a half-century of acts suppressing slavery and the slave trade.

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