A View of the Present State of the African Slave Trade: Published by Direction of a Meeting Representing the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, &c (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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By a decree of the Spanish monarch, dated December, 1817, the subjects of his government are prohibited from that day forward, from going to buy negroes on the coast of Africa north of the line; and the like prohibition applies from May 1820, to places south of the equator. The slaves bought in violation of this decree, are declared free, the ship confiscated, and the purchaser, captain, master and pilot.

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