David Christy Lectures on African Colonization, and Kindred Subjects

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the following year, 1820, Congress gave the crowning legislation upon this subject, by the passage Of the law decl slave trade piracy. This decisive measure, the first of among nations, and which stamped the slave trade with infamy, it should be remembered, was recommended by a c of the House in a Report founded on a memorial of the Col Society. Thus terminated the legislative measures adopte Government for the suppression of the slave trade. We shall now turn to Great Britam, the most extensive pa in this iniquitous traffic, and ascertain the success of the adopted for its suppression in that direction.