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Colonial and International Laws
Slaves and Slavery

These Acts of Parliament relate to slaves and slavery, including laws specific to Britain and her colonies, or relating to her treaties with other nations. To ease your search for specific topics, keywords in each act are highlighted in red. By simply scanning through the chronological list, you should easily be able to narrow in on desired items. Through the reign of George II, acts are listed by the year in which the Parliamentary session ends; from George III on they are by date of passage.

The Acts are listed according to the reigns of the British Kings and Queens.
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Reign of George II

• [Anno 25, p.771-86]. ... for the Application of a Sum of Money ... for the Royal African Company, for their Charter, Lands, Forts, Castles, Slaves, Military Stores [etc.] ... and to vest ... their Effects in the Company of Merchants trading to Africa ... (fore edge worn; lacks schedules) $150

Reign of George III

• [Anno 59, Cap.16]. ... to carry into Effect the Treaty with the Netherlands, relating to the Slave Trade. $75

Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 3&4, Cap.67]. ... carrying into effect the Treaty ... [with] the Republic of Venezuela, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. $60

• [Anno 5&6, Cap.40]. ... for carrying into the effect the Treaty ... [with] the Argentine Confederation for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. $60
• [Anno 5&6, Cap.41]. for carrying into effect a Convention ... [with] the Republic of Hayti for the more effectual supression of the Slave Trade. $70

• [Anno 5&6, Cap.101]. ... extending to the Governors and Officers of the East India Company the Powers given by an Act ... for the more effectual Supression of the Importation of Slaves into India by Sea. $35

• [Anno 5&6, Cap.114]. ... to repeal so much of an Act ... for the Supression of the Slave Trade, as relates to Portugueze Vessels. $25

• [Anno 6, Cap.14]. ... carrying into effect a Treaty ... [with] the Republic of Bolivia, for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (22 pp.). $60
• [Anno 6, Cap.16]. ... carrying into effect the Treaty ... [with] the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (30 pp.). $60

• [Anno 6&7, Cap.46]. ... to continue ... an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution ... any Treaties for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. $18
• [Anno 6&7, Cap.50]. ... for carrying into execution a Treaty ... for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, so far as the same relates to Great Britain, Austria, [France,] Prussia, and Russia (19 pp.). $95
• [Anno 6&7, Cap.51]. ... carrying into effect the Treaty ... [with] Mexican Republic for the Abolition of the Traffic in Slaves (17 pp.). $70
• [Anno 6&7, Cap.52]. ... carrying into effect the Treaty ... [with] the Republic of Chile for the Abolition of the Traffic in Slaves (23 pp.). $60
• [Anno 6&7, Cap.53]. ... for carrying into effect the Treaty ... [with] the Queen of Portugal for the Suppression of the Traffic in Slaves (37 pp.). $75

• [Anno 6&7, Cap.98]. ... for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade (creased and edgeworn). $45

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.122]. ... to amend an Act ... between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the Regulation and final Abolition of the African Slave Trade. $40

• [Anno 12&13, Cap.84]. ... carrying into effect Engagements ... [with] certain Arabian Chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the more effectual Suppresion of the Slave Trade. $75

• [Anno 26&27, Cap.34]. ... to carry into effect an additional Article to the Treaty ... [with] the United States of America, for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade. $35

• [Anno 36&37, Cap.59]. ... regulating and extending the Jurisdiction in matters connected with the Slave Trade of the Vice Admiralty Court at Aden ... under Treaties with the Sovereigns of Zanzibar, Muscat, and Madagascar ... $45

• [Anno 42&43, Cap.38]. ... to amend the Slave Trade (East African Court) Act $25

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