PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE PREVENTION OF SLAVE DEALING AT SIERRA LEONE. (IN CONTINUATION OF PAPERS PRESENTED AUGUST 12, 1853.) PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY, AUGUST 1855

London: Printed by George Edward Eyre..., 1855. Folio, modern blue wrappers, with copy of title affi...

1855 · London

by [Sierra Leone]
London: Printed by George Edward Eyre..., 1855. Folio, modern blue wrappers, with copy of title affixed to front wrap. Stitched. iv, 85pp, Near Fine.

Informative material on the slave-trade, with lists "of children rescued from slavery, either sold from or purchased and brought into this country"; prosecutions for slave-trading, naming names and punishments imposed; statements of slave children "recently recovered in the western part of the colony;" other statements of "rescued slaves;" and laws and ordinances. (Inventory #: 34009)
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