An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
JENKINSON Robert Earl of Liverpool. (1824.)
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First edition. Small folio. Untrimmed and stitched as issued, some contemporary ms. annotations in ink. [1121]-1199, [1]pp. London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan,
In the wake of the 1807 Abolition Act, a series of supplementary bills were passed into law to better effect the suppression of the slave trade (1811), extend the period for prosecutions (1813) and their provisions (1819), and to hasten trials (1824). Introduced to parliament by the Earl of Liverpool, this brought all of that legislation under a single act.
Another decade would pass before the 1833 Emancipation Act was brought into effect.
Rare: OCLC locates three copies at the Clements, Western Reserve Historical Society, and the University of the West Indies. Libraryhub adds KCL.
Stock Code: 246964
