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	Slave Trade Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1706
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slave_Trade_Act (457 words)

	African slave trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest external slave trade was the trans-Saharan slave trade.
		Slaves purchased from fl slave dealers in West African regions known as the Slave Coast, Gold Coast, and Côte d'Ivoire were sold into slavery as a result of a defeat in fl on fl tribal warfare.
		Slaves were an expensive commodity, and the traders and rulers of the African states supposedly received a great deal in exchange for condemning some of their population into slavery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slave_trade (2118 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Slave Trade Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease.
		In 1827 Britain declared that particiption in the slave trade was piracy and punishable by death.
		Abolition of the slave trade, although legally applicable to the entire United States, primarily affected the Southern states where slavery was still legal, because slaves were not usually brought to ports of a free state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Slave-Trade-Act (1468 words)

	Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Undoubtedly a majority of slaves were condemned agricultural or industrial labour and lived hard In some of the city-states of Greece and in the Roman Empire slaves were a very large part the economy and the Roman Empire built large part of its wealth on slaves through conquest.
		Using unmarried slaves as sexual concubines (a form sexual slavery) was still permitted however; as is from the imperial Abbasid harem which was populated by dozens or hundreds of slave-girls.
		The act imposed a fine of for every slave found aboard a British The intention was to entirely outlaw the trade within the British Empire but the continued and captains in danger of being by the Royal Navy would often throw slaves into the to reduce the fine.
	www.freeglossary.com /Slave_trade (5803 words)

	Slave Trade Act 1843 (UK)
		Slave Trade Act (4 Geo IV c 113) (Imp) and ss 1 and 2 of the
		Slave Trade Act (4 Geo IV c 113) (Imp) in relation to the trade or traffic in slaves were extended to apply to transactions in relation to bonded labourers.
		Slave Act 1843 struck at insurance and mortgages of enterprises engaged in the slave trade.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /huk-1843act.htm (344 words)

	Slavery in Rhode Island
		Black slaves were in Rhode Island by 1652, and by the end of that century Rhode Island had become the only New England colony to use slaves for both labor and trade.
		It is evident that the involvement of R.I. citizens in the slave trade was widespread and abundant.
		The law against thefts by slaves in Rhode Island was, again, the severest in New England, carrying a sentence that could be 15 lashes or even banishment from the colony -- a particularly dreaded punishment, as it usually meant deportation and sale to the merciless sugar plantations of the West Indies.
	www.slavenorth.com /rhodeisland.htm (1444 words)

	47 Geo. III, Sess. 1 cap. 36
		An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
		Act shall not affect the trading in Slaves, exported from Africa in Vessels cleared out from Great britain on or before May 1, 1807, and landed in the West Indies by March 1, 1808, andc.
		Slaves taken as Prize of War, or seized as Forfeitures, shall be condemned as prize, or forfeited to the King, for the Purpose of putting an End to their Slavery, and may be enlisted andc.
	www.pdavis.nl /Legis_06.htm (300 words)

	CRIMINAL LAW ACT, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In section 8 of the Carriers Act, 1830 (under which the protection given by that Act to common carriers does not extend to the felonious acts of their servants) for "the felonious acts" there shall be substituted "any theft, embezzlement or forgery".
		In section 6, subsection (2), of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (as amended by section 9 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935) (as to defilement of young persons) "of or above the age of fifteen and" shall be deleted.
		The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935, shall be amended as follows: in section 2 (1) and 2 (2) (defilement of girl between fifteen and seventeen years of age), "of or over the age of fifteen years and" shall be deleted.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /gen281997a.html (446 words)

	Atlantic slave trade: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A "triangular trade" is any three-way exchange, but the term is often used to refer to one particular instance: the 18th century trade between europe, the west...
		The middle passage was the leg of the atlantic slave trade that transported people from africa to north america, south america and the caribbean....
		The indian removal act of 1830 was a law passed by the twenty-first united states congress and signed by president andrew jackson....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/at/atlantic_slave_trade.htm (4131 words)

	Early Globalization and the Slave Trade
		One was the direct trade by which France sent wheat, wine, metal objects, and building materials to the New World in exchange for sugar, and, to a lesser degree, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rocou, and coffee.
		The income from hauling sugar for slave traders provided the margin that made direct voyages profitable, and the direct traders provided a means by which the slave traders could recover the remainder of their sugar.
		Slave traders were aware that their financial success depended upon carrying trade goods that were in demand in Africa.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=1587 (1233 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| Black presence \| Rights
		A third African who publicly demanded the abolition of the slave trade, as well as the emancipation of slaves, was Ottabah Cugoano.
		When the bill to abolish the slave trade was finally voted upon, there was a majority of 41 votes to 20 in the Lords and a majority of 114 to 15 in the Commons.
		Nevertheless, although the Act made it illegal to engage in the slave trade throughout the British colonies, trafficking between the Caribbean islands continued, regardless, until 1811.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/blackhistory/rights/abolition.htm (1205 words)

	BBC - History - Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Since 1772, it had been legally recognised that individuals could not be slaves in Britain.
		Despite this, in the later eighteenth century, Britain dominated the international trade in slaves.
		There was little public discontent in Britain concerning the traffic before the early nineteenth century but, in 1807, the slave trade was abolished within the British Empire.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/geo_slavetrade.shtml (190 words)

	JustBajan.com Opinion Matters - Church apologises for slave trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He added that when the emancipation of slaves took place in 1833, compensation was paid not to the slaves but to their owners.
		Slaves of British planters often took the name of their masters and, until 1710, Miss Codrington's forebears lived on the Codrington plantation in Barbados.
		Anglican culpability in the Caribbean slave trade can be traced back at least to 1710, when the planter Christopher Codrington died, leaving his 800-acre Barbados plantations to the Church's newly-established Society for the Propagation of the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts (SPG).
	www.justbajan.com /forums/showthread.php?t=127 (1279 words)

	Slave Trade Map & African-American Ancestry
		In course of time there developed a three-cornered trade by which molasses was brought from the West Indies to New England, made into rum to be taken to Africa and exchanged for slaves, the slaves in turn being brought to the West Indies or the Southern colonies.
		In the laws of New Jersey the word slaves occurs as early as 1664, and acts for the regulation of the conduct of those in bondage began with the practical union of the colony with New York in 1702.
		This act met further formal approval in 1705, when special courts were ordained for the trial and punishment of slaves, and when importation from Carolina was forbidden on the ground that it made trouble with the Indians nearer home.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/mapofafricadiaspora.html (6018 words)

	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998
		In section 10 of the Slave Trade Act 1824 (persons dealing in slaves) except as it applies to Northern Ireland, for the words from "and are hereby declared" to the end substitute "guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years".
		In section 11 of the Slave Trade Act 1824 (seamen etc, guilty of misdemeanour) for the words "and they are hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanour only" substitute "guilty of an offence".
		Section 27 of the Public Schools Act 1868 (saving for rights of dean and chapter of Westminster) shall continue to have effect with the substitution of "a part of" for "apart from" (an amendment made by section 3 of the Public Schools Act 1869).
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/acts1998/80043--l.htm (794 words)

	African Slave Trade Patrol
		Long illegal, the infamous slave trade was declared by Congress in 1819 to be piracy, and as such, punishable by death.
		In 1819, Congress passed an "Act in addition to the acts prohibiting the Slave Trade." This act authorized the president to send a naval squadron to African waters to apprehend illegal slave traders and appropriated $100,000 to resettle recaptured slaves in Africa.
		The new colony was deeply resented by the local, coastal tribes which had acted as slave trade's middlemen, buying slaves from their bushmen captors and selling them to masters of slave ships.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/slave.htm (497 words)

	Slave Trade Act 1824 (UK)
		Slave Trade Act 1824 made the slave trade a criminal offence.
		Slave Trade Act 1824 struck at insurance and mortgages of enterprises engaged in the slave trade.
		Slave Trade Act 1824 permitted slaves to be transported and, as a consequence, slaves involved in the slave insurrection in Demerara (in what is now the Co-operative Republic of Guyana) were sentenced to penal servitude and transported to Australia.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /huk-1824act.htm (135 words)

	1807 Abolition of Slavery Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Greenville made a passionate speech where he argued that the trade was "contrary to the principles of justice, humanity and sound policy" and criticised fellow members for "not having abolished the trade long ago".
		When the vote was taken the Abolition of the Slave Trade bill was passed in the House of Lords by 41 votes to 20.
		Some people involved in the anti-slave trade campaign such as Thomas Clarkson and Thomas Fowell Buxton, argued that the only way to end the suffering of the slaves was to make slavery illegal.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Lslavery07.htm (311 words)

	Lane. U S Navy and Slave Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1920-1862
		In 1819, with Congressional passage of the Slave Trade Act, President James Monroe was directed to use warships to suppress the trade and to establish Liberia as a haven for freed slaves next to Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa.
		Because the slave trade was a secret operation, historians can only approximate the number of vessels involved, the number captured, the mortality rate, and the number of slaves freed in the nineteenth century.
	amistad.mysticseaport.org /discovery/themes/lane.navy.html (8216 words)

	Guide Introduction: Papers of the American Slave Trade
		Brown’s accusers included his younger brother, Moses, a tireless opponent of both slavery and the slave trade since his conversion, on the eve of the American Revolution, from the family’s Baptist faith to the Society of Friends.
		Cyprian Sterry, for example, the principal slave trader in Providence during the 1790s with fifteen voyages to the African coast in 1794 alone, fully succumbed to the society’s persistent pressure.
		In addition to their value for research on the slave trade, these documents are essential collections for the study of Rhode Island commerce in general around 1800.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/slavetrade.asp (2417 words)

	Slave Trade Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		discrimination, the decline of the trade union movement...
		The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British parliament in 1807 abolishing the slave trade in the British empire.
		THe trade had begun in 1562, during the reign of Elizabeth I when John Hawkins lead the first slaving expedition.
	www.wikiverse.org /slave-trade-act (176 words)

	Whitehaven slave trade and the stolen Bielby goblet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sugar was the driving force to this trade, as was the rum that was distilled from it.
		For at least ten years Whitehaven was involved in this human trade until 1769 when the town appeared to swing behind the growing movement for abolition of slavery.
		An outcry turned into a mystery about the fate of dozens of children reported to be in a suspected slave ship in west African waters when the vessel docked in Cotonou, Benin, in April 2001 with none of the suspected victims on board.
	www.lakestay.co.uk /slave.htm (1114 words)

	News & Features \| A tangled web
		Second, the Brown study will likely land Rhode Island’s role in the slave trade in the national spotlight, and for good reason: the Brown family was only one player in a much-larger Rhode Island economy that was up to its hip boots in slavery.
		And slave labor itself was common in early Rhode Island.
		In fact, John Brown (not to be confused with the famous 1850s abolitionist) persisted in the trade after it was outlawed by both Rhode Island and the US Congress, and was tried for violating the Federal Slave Trade Act of 1794.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/top/features/documents/03885809.asp (1047 words)

	When will we act on Sudan's slave trade? [Free Republic]
		Slavery is a crime against humanity, and acting forthrightly against it ruffles the feathers of diplomats, stings big oil interests, and deeply embarrasses the slanderously compliant United Nations.
		He told John Eibner, the international's slave redemption chief, that he is ashamed to have acted this way, as many of the other men and boys were killed showing pride.
		He calls on us to pray, think and act in accord with His Spirit, which is at work in the world today to destroy the works of the enemy and redeem horrific situations like what is going on in the Sudan.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3ae436055080.htm (1580 words)

	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998
		In section 12, the words "In case of any seizure or capture under any Act relating to the abolition of the slave trade:".
		In paragraph (b) of the proviso to section 2, the words "and under the Slave Trade Act 1873," and "or the slave trade".
		In paragraph (a) of the proviso to section 9(2), the words "to the slave trade,".
	www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk /acts/acts1998/80043--i.htm (188 words)

	British legislation concerning slavery and the slave trade
		An Act for repealing the Act of the Session of the eighth and ninth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-two [19 April 1969] (Brazilian Slave Trade Repeal Act, 1869)
		An Act to regulate and extend the Jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar in regard to vessels captured on suspicion of being engaged in the Slave Trade, and for other purposes relating thereto [9 August 1869] (Slave Trade Jurisdiction (Zanzibar) Act, 1869)
		An Act for regulating and extending the Jurisdiction in matters connected with the Slave Trade of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Aden, and of Her Majesty's Consuls under Treaties with the Sovereigns of Zanzibar, Muscat, and Madagascar, and under future Treaties [5 August 1873] (Slave Trade (East African Courts) Act, 1873)
	www.pdavis.nl /Legislation.htm (3024 words)

	Gleeful Gecko » Blog Archive » Today In History: Slave Trade Act passes in England in 1807
		While not ending slavery in the British Empire the Slave Trade Act banned British ships from taking part in the slave trade and fined captains £100 per slave found on board their ships.
		This act was a signifigant step in the battle to end the Atlantic slave trade, but didn’t stop the trade.
		This was the result of years of lobbying by anti-slavery campaigners in the UK and led to full abolition in 1833.
	www.gleefulgecko.com /archives/64 (202 words)

	Cronaca: Brown University examines past links to slave trade
		The 88-page history neglects to mention, however, that John Brown was a slave trader as well as a merchant, and that ships from his family trading company, Nicholas Brown & Co., were used to transport slaves.
		It has been difficult to determine how much of the family's wealth was derived from the slave trade versus the rum and dry-goods trades.
		Historical evidence also indicates that slaves were used at the family's candle factory in Providence, its ironworks in Scituate, and to build Brown's University Hall, according to the university report.
	www.cronaca.com /archives/002228.html (568 words)

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