The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 426 pages of information about The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America.

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 426 pages of information about The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[1] The Reports of the Secretary of the Navy are found among the documents accompanying the annual messages of the President.

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Index

ABOLITION of slave-trade by Europe, 145 n.

Abolition Societies, organization of, 42, 74;
  petitions of, 79, 80-85.

Adams, C.F., 151.

Adams, J.Q., on Right of Search, 139;
  proposes Treaty of 1824, 140;
  message, 271-72.

Adams, Governor of S.C., message on slave-trade, 169, 170, 289-90.

Advertisements for smuggled slaves, 182 n.

Africa, English trade to, 10, 12-13;
  Dutch trade to, 24-25;
  Colonial trade to, 26, 35, 36, 41-42, 47, 75, 76;
  “Association” and trade to, 47, 52;
  American trade to, 88, 112, 113, 116, 148, 179, 180, 181-82, 185-87;
  reopening of trade to, 168-92.

African Agency, establishment, 124, 126;
  attempts to abolish, 156;
  history, 158.

“African Labor Supply Association,” 176.

African Society of London, 113.

African squadron, establishment of, 123, 124;
  activity of, 128, 129, 146, 148, 157, 159, 184, 185, 186, 191.

Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace, 11;
  Congress, 137 n.

Alabama, in Commercial Convention, 170;
  State statutes, 112, 254, 263-64, 287-88.

Alston, speeches on Act of 1807, 99 n., 101 n., 102 n.

Amelia Island, illicit traffic at, 116, 117, 121, 254;
  capture of, 118, 257.

Amendments to slave-trade clause in Constitution proposed, 72, 94,
  111 n., 183, 248-51, 253, 258, 266, 298, 299.

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