The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America / 1638-1870

by W. E. B. Du Bois

[51] Ibid., p. 241.

[52] Cf. e.g. House Doc., 28 Cong. 2 sess. IV. pt. I. No. 148; 29 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 43; House Exec. Doc., 30 Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 61; Senate Exec. Doc., 30 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 28; 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6; 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47.

[53] Foote, Africa and the American Flag, p. 218.

[54] Ibid., p. 221.

[55] Palmerston to Stevenson: House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, p. 5. In 1836 five such slavers were known to have cleared; in 1837, eleven; in 1838, nineteen; and in 1839, twenty-three: Ibid., pp. 220–1.

[56] Parliamentary Papers, 1839, Vol. XLIX., Slave Trade, class A, Further Series, pp. 58–9; class B, Further Series, p. 110; class D, Further Series, p. 25. Trist pleaded ignorance of the law: Trist to Forsyth, House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115.

[57] House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115.

[58] Foote, Africa and the American Flag, p. 290.

[59] House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, pp. 121, 163–6.

[60] Senate Exec. Doc., 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV No. 66.