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Eight original British Acts of Parliament concerning the Abolition of Slavery. Including the 1837 act for the compensation to owners of slaves upon the abolition of slavery: CAP. III. An act to carry into further execution the provisions of an act for completing the full payment of compensation to owners of slaves upon the abolition of slavery. 23d December 1837. CAP. XIX. An Act to amend the Act for the abolition of slavery in the British colonies. 11th April 1838. Disd-bound, 10 sides. CAP. XL.An act to carry into effect an additional article to a treaty with Sweden relative to the slave trade. 27th July 1838. Disbound. 2 sides. CAP. XVI. An Act for carrying into effect an additional Article to a Treaty with the Netherlands relating to the Slave Trade.27th July 1838. Disbound. 2 sides. CAP. XLVII.An Act for the better and more effectually carrying into effect the Treaties and Conventions made with Foreign Powers for suppressing the Slave Trade. 27th July 1838. Disbound. 3 sides. CAP. LXXXIII. An Act for carrying into effect a Convention of Accession of the Duke of Tuscany to Two Conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the Slave Trade. 10th August 1838. Disbound. 3 sides. CAP. LXXXIV. An Act for carrying into effect a Convention of Accession of the King of the Two Sicilies to Two Conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the Slave Trade. 10th August 1838. Disbound. 3 sides. CAP. CII. An Act to revive and continue, until Six Months after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, and to amend, an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate Execution by Orders in Council and Treaties made for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. 14th August 1838. Disbound. 3 sides. --- The Slave Compensation Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 3) was the world's first major act of compensated emancipation and an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December 1837. It authorised the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to compensate slave owners in the British colonies of the Caribbean, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope in the amount of approximately £20 million for freed slaves. Over 40,000 awards to slave owners were issued according to a government census that named all owners as of 1 August 1834. After decades of campaigning, the Slavery Abolition Act had been passed in 1833. The plantation owners in the Caribbean, represented by the London Society of West India Planters and Merchants (now the West India Committee), had opposed abolition. The compensated amount constituted 40% of the Treasury?s tax receipts to the former slave owners, but nothing to the liberated people. The Act empowered the Treasury, to either pay the compensation out of the West India Compensation Account, or to transfer a proportionate amount of 3.5% government annuities. Payments of the bonds to the descendants of creditors was only finalised in 2015 when the British Government redeemed all remaining undated gilts. Nathan Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore led a syndicate underwriting the issue of three new series of securities to raise £15 million. A further £5 million was paid out directly in government stock. University College London has set up a project Legacies of British Slave-ownership which aims to list the individuals who received compensation. They estimate that somewhere between 10 and 20% of Britain's wealthy can be identified as having had links to slavery. UCL have been pursuing the case with The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at the university. Since 2018, numerous Freedom of Information Act requests have been sent to the British government and Bank of England for the names of those who were paid with the bonds, of which all were denied.------ Acts dis-bound with browning to edges, couple of puncture holes to left margin and creasing etc. to spine where disbound. Also some creasing, nicks and small losses to edges of others. Seller Inventory # 000702
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