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Treaties, Conventions, and Engagements, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Treaties Conventions and Engagements for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Author:Great Britain General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: T.R. Harrison, prtr. Subjects: Slave trade Slavery History / Africa / General History / United States / General Social Science / Slavery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ty... more »pos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MEXICO. Treaty between Her Majesty and the Mexican Republic, for the abolition of the Traffic in Slaves. -- Signed at Mexico, February 24, 1841. [Ratifications exchanged at London, July 29, 1842.] In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Excellency the President of the Mexican Republic, being animated by a sincere desire to co-operate for the total extinction of the barbarous Traffic in Slaves, have resolved to conclude a Treaty for the special purpose of immediately attaining this object, and have named, respectively, as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Richard Pakenham, Esquire, her Minister Plenipotentiary to the Mexican Government; and his Excellency the President of the Mexican Republic, his Excellency Don Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from that Republic at the Court of London: Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : -- Article I. The Slave Trade is declared by this Treaty to be totally and perpetually abolished in all parts of the world, on the part of the Mexican Republic, as are already Slavery in the Mexican territory, and the aforesaid Traffic in Slaves on the part of Great Britain. Article II. The Gov...« less