Catalogue description Slave Trade Adviser to the Treasury: Unregistered Papers

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Reference: HCA 36
Title: Slave Trade Adviser to the Treasury: Unregistered Papers
Description:

The papers consist of printed and other material concerning the slave trade.

The papers include regulations, instructions, etc, issued by the Treasury concerning the suppression of the slave trade, 1862 to 1865; draft returns to the House of Commons relating to the slave trade and the High Court of Admiralty generally, 1837 to 1853; papers relating to the Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves, 1876; records of the East African Slave Trade Committee, 1869 to 1871 and case papers concerning Brazilian claims arising out of British actions in connection with the suppression of the slave trade, 1865 to 1871.

Date: 1837-1876
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 8 bundle(s)
Selection and destruction information: The papers were weeded in 1942 under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 7 August 1941.

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