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Abolition of slavery

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'Memorandum in regard to the slave trade between East Africa and the United States', 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/2
Scope and Contents

An undated memorandum regarding the extent to which enslaved persons taken to America included Africans from the eastern side of the continent, consisting largely of extracts from T. Fowell Buxton's 'The African slave trade and its remedy' (1840). The latest date mentioned in the memorandum is 1909.

Dates: 1909
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