'Commentary on the treaties entered into between His Britannic Majesty and ..... [Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands]...… for the purpose of preventing their subjects from engaging in any illicit traffic in slaves' by Robert Thorpe

Thorpe provides a critical commentary of the treaties entered between Britain, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands to abolish the trade in enslaved African people. He argues that rather than ending the trade it will strengthen it. He criticizes the establishment of Commission Courts arguing that the...

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