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                         THE SUPPRESSION OF THE
                           AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE
                                 TO THE
                              UNITED STATES
                               OF AMERICA
                                1638-1870

                                Volume I
                        Harvard Historical Studies

                                  1896

                        Longmans, Green, and Co.
                                New York

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Preface


This monograph was begun during my residence as Rogers Memorial Fellow
at Harvard University, and is based mainly upon a study of the sources,
i.e., national, State, and colonial statutes, Congressional documents,
reports of societies, personal narratives, etc. The collection of laws
available for this research was, I th