Slave Trade Adviser to the Treasury: Unregistered Papers

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Reference code(s): HCA 36

Title: Slave Trade Adviser to the Treasury: Unregistered Papers

Date(s): 1837 - 1876

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 8 bundle(s)

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Scope and content: These 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.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: The papers were weeded in 1942 under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 7 August 1941.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2002

Interest: Caribbean

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Abolition of slavery

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Slavery

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