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[Records of the Admiralty, Colonial Office and Foreign Office relating to the suppression of the slave trade], 1675-1859 1800-1859.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Great Britain. Admiralty.
- Series:
- Slavery, abolition & social justice.
- Slavery, abolition & social justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--Sources.
- Great Britain.
- Slave trade--History--Sources.
- Slave trade.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--History--Sources.
- Slave trade--Africa--History--Sources.
- Slave ships--Africa--History--Sources.
- Slave ships.
- Capture at sea--Africa--History--Sources.
- Capture at sea.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--History--Sources.
- Enslaved persons.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--Sources.
- Antislavery movements.
- Great Britain--Commerce--History--Sources.
- Slave records--Sierra Leone.
- Slave records.
- Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Viscount, 1757-1833.
- Exmouth, Edward Pellew.
- Sybille (Frigate).
- Dryad (Ship).
- Place of Publication:
- 1675-1859
- Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2013.
- Summary:
- Electronic reproduction of selected material from the National Archives (U.K.). Files ADM 51/3466, ADM 1/3141, CO 2/6, CO 267-11, CO 267-11, CO 267/127, CO 268/4, FO 2/28, FO 315/23, FO 315/31, FO 315/32, FO 315/33, FO 315/34, FO 315/35, FO 315/36, FO 84/1310, FO 97/605, FO 84/65, FO 84/66, FO 95/9/2, FO 84/1, FO 84/2, FO 84/46, HCA 49/97, including: captains' logs of HMS Sybille and HMS Dryad, flag ships on the African Station (1826-1830 and 1830-1832 respectively) employed in the capture of ships believed to be illegally trading in slaves; papers on Admiral Lord Exmouth's mission to the Barbary powers to negotiate for the abandonment of Christian slavery; reports on African forts including a census of population and liberated Africans; minute book of trials held at Sierra Leone Mixed Commission Court, 1826-1837; registers of slave emancipated, Sierra Leone 1820-1845; cases heard by the Sierra Leone Vice-Admiralty Court, 1808-1817.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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