James Ritchie - Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar

“On the separation of Brazil from Portugal, negotiations were entered into to induce the Brazilian government to abandon the slave trade; and, in 1826, a treaty was entered into declaring it piracy, after 1830, when a mixed British and Brazilian court were to adjudicate on seizures. The greatest exertions were used to import slaves from the date of this treaty, and the vessels were consequently much more crowded than usual; yet, out of 150,587 slaves legally imported into Rio Janeiro between the 1st July, 1827, and 31st December, 1830, when it became a smuggling trade, the mortality on the middle passage was only eight per cent.

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Vide the attack on George Thompson and John Bright, in the Standard of Saturday, May 18.

Vide Report of Select Committee on West Coast of Africa. Part I.

Vide Colonial Gazette, Nov. 1842.

Bandinell, p. 222.

Ibid. p. 161.