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Four Sierra Leone Recaptives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Christopher Fyfe
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Parliament passed in 1807 the act to illegalize (called prematurely to abolish) the slave-trade. A Vice-Admiralty Court where the Navy could bring captured slave-ships for condemnation was constituted in Freetown, the capital of the Colony of Sierra Leone. From 1819 international anti-slave-trade courts, the Courts of Mixed Commission, were constituted there too. Until 1864, when the last ship destined for the Atlantic slave-trade was condemned, slave-ships were regularly brought in and the slaves freed.

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Research Article
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The Journal of African History , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1961 , pp. 77 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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