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185534009London: Printed by George Edward Eyre. 1855. Folio modern blue wrappers with copy of title affixed to front wrap. Stitched. iv 85pp Near Fine. <br/><br/> 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. Printed by George Edward Eyre... unknown books
185334021London: Printed by George Edward Eyre. 1853. Folio modern blue wrappers with copy of title affixed to front wrap. Stitched. 35 1 pp. Lightly foxed Very Good. <br/><br/> The papers concern the treatment of Liberated Africans under British law; the continuing participation of Africans in the illicit slave trade; the "case of John Cole a Liberated African charged with felony and slave-dealing" for having sold into slavery another Liberated African; a report "that a system of petty slave-dealing has been carried on to a considerable extent in Freetown"; the rescue of African children who had been sold as slaves; calendar of prisoners tried for slave-dealing; various other cases of slave-dealing. Printed by George Edward Eyre... unknown books
