 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 500 pages
...that no vessel should clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after the first of May, 1807; and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after the first of March, 1808: on the eighteenth, it was carried up to the lords, for their concurrence in some... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...commencement of the struggle against slavery, that a bill actually passed both houses of Parliament, enacting that no vessel should clear out for slaves from any...landed in the colonies after the 1st of March 1808. That bill had met with much opposition in its progress ; and many a long debate had it called forth,... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1855 - 618 pages
...favour. The bill, which was debated with great animation in all its stages, enacted, that no veg sel ed shoula be landed in the colonies after the 1st of March, 1808. On the Kith of March, on the motion... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 238 pages
...that no vessel should clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after tho 14th of May, 1807 ; and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after the 1st of March, 1808. Thus this dark spot in the English annals was wiped out, and a noble example was set to the nations... | |
 | 1874 - 974 pages
...That no vessel should clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after the first of May, 1807, and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after the first of March, 1808." Although Bristol sent members to the House of Commons, the demand there for... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1879 - 418 pages
...clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after the ist of May of that year, 1807, and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after March ist, 1808. Now here was the great manifestation of Providential interposition ; had the bill... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - 1890 - 948 pages
...enacted that no vessel should clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after 1st May 1807, and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after 1st March 1808. In 1807 the African Institution was formed, with the primary objects of keeping a vigilant... | |
 | John Kells Ingram - 1895 - 306 pages
...Howick), was there amended and passed, and received the royal assent on the 25th of March. The bill enacted that no vessel should clear out for slaves...landed in the colonies after the 1st of March 1808. In 1807 the African Institution was formed, with the primary objects of keeping a vigilant watch on... | |
 | John Kells Ingram - 1895 - 312 pages
...Howick), was there amended and passed, and received the royal assent on the 25th of March. The bill enacted that no vessel should clear out for slaves...landed in the colonies after the 1st of March 1808. In 1807 the African Institution was formed, with the primary objects of keeping a vigilant watch on... | |
 | 1896 - 722 pages
...decreed that: " No vessel should clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after May, 1807, and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after March 1st, 1808."' The prudent wording of this act was not misunderstood by the English commercial... | |
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The bill enacted that no vessel should clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after the 1st of May 1807, and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after the 1st of March 1808. In 1807 the African Institution... 
