First And Second Reports From The Select Committee On The Slave Trade Session 1849

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Download or read book Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first rare report of this Select Committee, followed in 1850 by a second, more common report. Witnesses appeared before the Committee from April through early July, 1849. Their testimony, printed at pages 3-432, describes the various attempts to suppress the African Slave Trade, Treaties and other efforts for foreign governments "to punish slave-trading"; the types of vessels used in the Slave Trade, and their outfitting; Brazil as a major offender; culture and other characteristics of the African nations from which the slaves are taken, with eyewitness accounts from missionaries; the horrors and high mortality rates of the middle passage - disease, whippings, lack of food and water. "Every slave, whatever his size might be, was found to have only five feet and six inches in length and sixteen inches in breadth to lie in. The floor was covered with bodies stowed or packed according to this allowance... The men were chained two and two together by their hands and feet, and were chained, also, by means of bolts, which were fastened to the deck." The graphic plate of the Slave Ship demonstrates these horrific conditions. The Appendix lists hundreds of vessels stopped by British Cruisers for carrying on the slave trade, with their dates of capture, tonnage, number of slaves, and judgments; more testimony; constitutions of Liberia and the American Colonization Society; official documents; and a variety of other useful material.